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core political ideas - Coggle Diagram

- - - - uphold traditional institutions
        
        monarchy
        
        religion
        
        marriage
    - - decisions must be made rationally and according to what is the most reasonable solution
    - - because humans are inherently selfish and irrational, those in power have a duty to care for them and keep them under control
      - noblesse oblige
    - - humans are irrational and cannot make good decisions on their own
        
        need clever, strong, powerful state to lead them and make decisions on their behalf
      - humans are selfish and make decisions to benefit themselves
    - - society develops independently
  - - - laissez faire economics
    - - disreli
      - macmillan
      - industrial revolution causing extreme poverty
        
        policy of 'trickle down' economics was not working
        
        french revolution had just happened, because the rich didnt/wouldnt help the poor
        
        dont want it to happen in the uk
      - policy of noblesse oblige
        
        obligation of those in power to help the poor
      - modern one nation pms
        
        david cameron
        
        policies such as m(ssc) 2013, gay marriage, modern attitudes
      - change to conserve
        
        conservative principles need to change only to adapt to changing attitudes
        
        not to new radical ideas, only empirical evidence
      - because something has worked for generations before us, means we should not disregard it
      - living in society is a contract between the living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born
    - - neo conservatism x neo lberalism
        
        conservative in social attitude - authoritarian
        
        minimal welfare state
        
        strong law and order
        
        uphold traditional institutions
        
        worried about social fragmentation
        
        sexual liberation in the 1960s
        
        need to establish morals
        
        liberal in economic views - free market
        
        laissez faire economics
        
        'let it be'
        
        privatisation of industry
        
        allows competition
        
        also right to buy scheme, allowing residents of council housing to buy property to allow them to participate in economy
        
        housing act 1985
        
        paradox
      - thatcher
      - regan
      - response to failure of keynesian economics
      - welfare creates a dependency culture
        
        try to minimise welfare benefits, only give to those in desparate need
        
        neo liberalism
        
        will not remove welfare policies as would be irrational, not pragmatic
  - - - book: leviathan
      - royalist during english civil war
        
        wants to uphold traditional institutions
      - 17th century
      - traditional
    - - book: reflections on revolutions in france
      - traditional
    - - one nation
    - - life
        
        born in socialist russia, lived under communism, hated it
      - new right
    - - technically new right