8 sentences with “conservatism”

In turn, Christian Democracy was an amalgam of social conservatism with a now anachronistic willingness to provide welfare state provisions.

After 1848, conservatism itself slowly adopted liberal and nationalist traits, culminating in the conservative-led national unifications in Italy and Germany.

Although conservative regimes eventually retained power, the very definition of conservatism and the methods conservatives used were altered by the revolutions.

Fascism was a modern conservatism, a conservatism that clung to its mania for order and hierarchy, but did not seek a return to the days of feudalism and monarchy.

Early nineteenth-century conservatism at its best was a consistent critique of the violence, war and instability that had accompanied the Revolution and the Napoleonic wars.

The fundamental argument of conservatism was that the French Revolution and Napoleon had already shown that too many changes and innovations in politics were inherently destructive.

While the far right has gained strength in many European countries over time, the greatest overall impact was the changing identity of centre-right conservatism. This form of conservatism is often called "neo-conservatism" to differentiate it from the earlier form of post-war centre-right politics.

Instead, the European elites of the time explained their own social role in terms of peace, tradition and stability. Their ideology was called conservatism: the idea that what had worked for centuries was inherently better at maintaining peace both within and between kingdoms than the forces unleashed by the French Revolution.