Conservative liberalism
Conservative liberalism is a variant of liberalism, combining liberal values and policies with conservative stances, or simply representing the right wing of the liberal movement.[1] It is a more positive and less radical variant of classical liberalism.[2]
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Conservative liberal parties tend to combine liberal policies with more traditional stances and personal beliefs on social and ethical issues.[3]
Neoconservatism has also been identified as an ideological relative or twin to conservative liberalism,[4] and some similarities exist also between conservative liberalism and national liberalism.
Overview
According to Robert Kraynak, a professor at Colgate University, rather than "following progressive liberalism (i.e. social liberalism), conservative liberals draw upon pre-modern sources, such as classical philosophy (with its ideas of virtue, the common good, and natural rights), Christianity (with its ideas of natural law, the social nature of man, and original sin), and ancient institutions (such as common law, corporate bodies, and social hierarchies). This gives their liberalism a conservative foundation. It means following Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Edmund Burke rather than Locke or Kant; it usually includes a deep sympathy for the politics of the Greek polis, the Roman Republic, and Christian monarchies. But, as realists, conservative liberals acknowledge that classical and medieval politics cannot be restored in the modern world. And, as moralists, they see that the modern experiment in liberty and self-government has the positive effect of enhancing human dignity as well as providing an opening (even in the midst of mass culture) for transcendent longings for eternity. At its practical best, conservative liberalism promotes ordered liberty under God and establishes constitutional safeguards against tyranny. It shows that a regime of liberty based on traditional morality and classical-Christian culture is an achievement we can be proud of, rather than merely defensive about, as trustees of Western civilization".[5]
In the European context, conservative liberalism should not be confused with liberal conservatism which is a variant of conservatism combining conservative views with liberal policies in regards to the economy, social and ethical issues.[3] The roots of conservative liberalism are to be found at the beginning of the history of liberalism. Until the two world wars, the political class in most European countries from Germany to Italy was formed by conservative liberals. The events such as World War I occurring after 1917 brought the more radical version of classical liberalism to a more conservative (i.e. more moderate) type of liberalism.[6] Conservative liberal parties have tended to develop in those European countries where there was no strong secular conservative party and where the separation of church and state was less of an issue. In those countries, where the conservative parties were Christian democratic, this conservative brand of liberalism developed.[1][7]
In the United States, neoconservatives might be classified as conservative liberals, according to Peter Lawler, a professor at Berry College, who argued: "[I]n America today, responsible liberals—who are usually called neoconservatives—see that liberalism depends on human beings who are somewhat child-centered, patriotic, and religious. These responsible liberals praise these non-individualistic human propensities in an effort to shore up liberalism. One of their slogans is 'conservative sociology with liberal politics.' The neoconservatives recognize that the politics of free and rational individuals depends upon a pre-political social world that is far from free and rational as a whole".[8] In the American context, conservative liberalism as well as liberal conservatism should not be confused with libertarian conservatism, influenced by right-libertarianism.
Conservative liberal parties worldwide
Conservative liberal parties or parties with conservative liberal factions
- Argentina: Union of the Democratic Centre[9]
- Australia: Liberal Party of Australia[10]
- Belarus: United Civic Party of Belarus
- Belgium: Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats,[1][10][11] Reformist Movement,[1][10][11] New Flemish Alliance, Libertarian, Direct, Democratic,[12] People's Party[12]
- Brazil: Progressive Party[13]
- Bulgaria: National Movement for Stability and Progress[14]
- Canada: British Columbia Liberal Party, Quebec Liberal Party, Saskatchewan Party
- Croatia: Croatian Social Liberal Party[12]
- Czech Republic: ANO 2011,[14] Civic Democratic Party,[15][16][17] TOP 09[18]
- Denmark: Venstre–Liberal Party of Denmark[1][7][12][19]
- Estonia: Estonian Reform Party[20]
- El Salvador: Nuevas Ideas, GANA
- Faroe Islands: Union Party,[12] People's Party[21]
- Finland: National Coalition Party, Centre Party[22]
- France: The Republicans, Agir
- Germany: Free Democratic Party[1][23][24]
- Greece: New Democracy[25]
- Greenland: Feeling of Community[12]
- Iceland: Independence Party[26]
- Israel: Likud[27][28]
- Italy: Forza Italia,[29] Civic Choice[30]
- Japan: Liberal Democratic Party (factions),[31][32] Democratic Party for the People[33]
- Latvia: Unity
- Lithuania: Liberal Movement, Lithuanian Freedom Union (Liberals)
- Luxembourg: Democratic Party[1]
- Moldova: Liberal Party,[12][34] Liberal Reformist Party
- Netherlands: People's Party for Freedom and Democracy[12][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]
- New Zealand: New Zealand National Party
- Norway: Progress Party[12][42]
- Philippines: Liberal Party
- Poland: Civic Platform[43][44][45]
- Portugal: Social Democratic Party[46]
- Romania: National Liberal Party[14]
- Slovakia: Freedom and Solidarity[47] For the People
- Slovenia: Slovenian Democratic Party[17]
- South Africa: Cape Party, Democratic Alliance
- South Korea: Minsaeng Party, Party of Nationals [48]<r
- Spain: People's Party,[49] Catalan European Democratic Party, Basque Nationalist Party[50]
- Switzerland: FDP.The Liberals[1][14]
- Sweden: Liberals[14]
- Taiwan: People First Party, Taiwan People's Party (factions)
- Thailand: Democrat Party[51]
- United Kingdom: Conservative Party, Liberal Democrats (factions)
- United States: Republican Party (factions) [52]
Historical conservative liberal parties or parties with conservative liberal factions
- Austria: Constitutional Party, Federation of Independents, Freedom Party of Austria[1]
- Belarus: Belarusian Peasant Party[53]
- Brazil: National Democratic Union
- Czech Republic: Civic Democratic Alliance,[23][54] Public Affairs[55]
- El Salvador: National Coalition Party
- France: Union for the New Republic/Union of Democrats for the Republic/Rally for the Republic,[56] Independent Republicans/Republican Party/Liberal Democracy,[56] Union for French Democracy[57] Republican Party,[58] Union for a Popular Movement
- Germany: German People's Party[59][60]
- Iceland: Liberal Party (1927), Liberal Party (1998)[61]
- Ireland: Progressive Democrats[62]
- Israel: General Zionists, Liberal Party
- Italy: Italian Liberal Party,[1][63] Italian Liberal Right, Forza Italia[29]
- Latvia: Latvian Way,[64][65] Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way[14]
- Lithuania: National Resurrection Party, Liberal and Centre Union[14]
- Mexico: Liberal Party
- Netherlands: Liberal State Party, Party of Freedom[66]
- New Zealand: United Party[67]
- Norway: Frisinnede Venstre[68]
- Poland: Liberty, League of the Right of the Republic,[69] Liberal Democratic Congress,[70] Poland Together[71]
- Romania: Democratic Liberal Party, Liberal Reformist Party
- Serbia: Serbian Progressive Party[72]
- Slovakia: Democratic Party[73]
- South Korea: Korea Democratic Party, Democratic Nationalist Party, Democratic Party (1955), New Democratic Party, Reunification Democratic Party, Democratic Party (1990), United Democratic Party (1995), Party for Democracy and Peace,[74] New Alternatives
- Spain: Liberal Party, Democratic Convergence of Catalonia[75]
- Switzerland: Free Democratic Party,[1][76] Liberal Party[1][12]
- Turkey: Justice and Development Party[77][78][79]
- United Kingdom: Liberal Unionist Party, National Liberal Party
- United States: Whig Party
See also
- Centre-right politics
- Classical liberalism
- Economic liberalism
- Liberal conservatism
- Scientific politics
- People
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