According to the book, the role of Conservatism is not to oppose all change but to resist and balance the volatility of current political fads and ideology, and to defend a middle position that enshrines a slowly-changing organic humane traditionalism.

The European New Right is similar to the Cultural Conservatism movement led by Paul Weyrich and the Free Congress Foundation, and to the related traditionalism of paleoconservatives such as Pat Buchanan and the Chronicles ( magazine ) of the Rockford Institute ( Diamond, Himmelstein, Berlet and Lyons ).

Conservatism thus rejects patrilineal descent, which is accepted by the Reform movement.

Conservatism emerged by the end of the 18th century — which synthesised moderate Whig positions and some of the old Tory values to create a new political ideology, in opposition to the French Revolution.

" Common misunderstandings of conservatives by conservatives are that " Conservatism nothing else is for traditional values ", and that " Conservatism is just what the Bible tells us.

Perhaps his most important book, the Penguin paperback " The Case for Conservatism ," was a similar response to " Labour Marches On " by John Parker M. P.

The term was used in British politics ( where it is used in a quite different sense: see One Nation Conservatism ), but was last used in Australian political life to describe a tax reform package by the Labor government of Paul Keating, whose urban-based, Asia-centric, free-market, and pro-affirmative action policies were representative of what One Nation voters were opposing.

*" The Principles of Conservatism ", by Honorable Margaret Thatcher, Heritage Foundation Lecture, December 10, 1997.

* Conservatism in the Netherlands by Hermann von der Dunk In: Journal of Contemporary History, Vol.

" Commentary, the Public Interest, and the Problem of Jewish Conservatism ," American Jewish History 87. 2 & 3 ( 1999 ) 159-181. online in Project MUSE, scholarly article by conservative historian

* American Conservatism 1945-1995, by Irving Kristol

His essay " Monarch as Alternative ," mentioned above, appears in Conservatism in America Since 1930, a collection of essays by conservative writers published by New York University Press in 2003.

Michael Lind, in his 1996 publication Up From Conservatism, writes that, though American radical centrism is today a minority political philosophy, it was, in fact, the dominant political philosophy within the United States from the time of Franklin Delano Roosevelt through Lyndon Johnson — a philosophy that was shared both by the presidents of that era and the majority of the American people.

* Compassionate Conservatism: What it is, What it Does, and How it Can Transform America ( 2000, introduction by George W. Bush )

* 1990: Christianity and Conservatism, by John Gummer

The primary influences on Canadian Toryism in the Victorian age were Disraeli's One Nation Conservatism and the radical Toryism advocated by Lord Randolph Churchill.

* 21st Century Conservatism, by Damian Green, 1998

Some insist the doctrine was invented by Dr. Marvin Olasky, who went on to memorialize it in his books Renewing American Compassion ( 1996 ) and Compassionate Conservatism: What it is, What it Does, and How it Can Transform America ( 2000 ), and Myron Magnet of the Manhattan Institute.

* Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism ( ISBN 0-691-09260-5 ) by

A close friend of the former Tory prime minister Sir Edward Heath, and an exponent of the same kind of one-nation Conservatism, Trethowan has been criticised in recent years by some on the left, especially for his support for the MI5 " vetting " of BBC employees which has often been seen as a means of weeding out leftists in the corporation.

* Conservatism is embodied by the provincial governor Andrei Antonovich Von Lembke, and is shown to be incapable of dealing with subversive extremism.

He expressed the " One Nation Conservatism " in the tradition of Disraeli, which called for paternalism by the upper class toward the working class.

The Meaning of Conservatism ( 1980 )— which he called " a somewhat Hegelian defence of Tory values in the face of their betrayal by the free marketeers "— was the book that he said blighted his academic career.

His other political views tended towards old-fashioned Conservatism, anti-Communism and an increasing distrust of " The Establishment " ( as he put it ), the latter fuelled by his frequent court appearances.

Hayek wrote an essay, " Why I Am Not a Conservative " ( included as an appendix to The Constitution of Liberty ), in which he disparaged conservatism for its inability to adapt to changing human realities or to offer a positive political program, remarking, " Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves ".

His views somewhat rapidly ripened from what was described as philosophic Liberalism into Conservatism.

Conservatism has been the major political force in France since the second world war.

Conservatism in the United Kingdom is related to its counterparts in other Western nations, but has a distinct tradition.

Goldwater had written in his seminal The Conscience of a Conservative ( 1960 ) that " Throughout history, true Conservatism has been at war equally with autocrats and with ' democratic ' Jacobins.

Disraeli was a Jew, as are many of the neoconservatives who helped transform the Republican Party from a cocktail party in Darien into the party of Scalia, d ' Souza, Gonzalez, and Yoo ... Conservatism has not only depended upon outsiders ; it also has seen itself as the voice of the outsider ... the conservative has served as the tribune for the displaced, his movement a conveyance of their grievances.

He has edited a number of books, including three volumes of The Dictionary of Literary Biography on American historians ; The Essential Calhoun ; John C. Calhoun: A Bibliography ; and A Defender of Southern Conservatism: M. E.

Regarded as right of centre, Pritchard nonetheless was one of the first advocates of ‘ compassionate Conservatism ’ in the United Kingdom and has vocally supported the Coalition Government ’ s policy of increased spending on international aid.

Conservatism in the United States has played an important role in American politics since the 1950s.

At the general election for the Chamber of Deputies which took place in November 1919, there had been a strong tendency towards Conservatism, the Socialist Party being badly defeated.

A number of related scales such as the Wilson-Patterson Conservatism Scale and the Balanced F-scale have been created in an attempt to fix the shortcomings of the F-scale.

In 1996 she said in the Keith Joseph memorial lecture: " The kind of Conservatism which he and I ... favoured would be best described as " liberal ", in the old-fashioned sense.

Conservatism (, " to retain ") is a political and social philosophy that promotes retaining traditional social institutions.

According to Hailsham, a former chairman of the British Conservative Party, " Conservatism is not so much a philosophy as an attitude, a constant force, performing a timeless function in the development of a free society, and corresponding to a deep and permanent requirement of human nature itself.

Conservatism developed in Restoration England from royalism.

English Conservatism since the Restoration: An Introduction and Anthology.

* Conservatism / Ted Honderich.

* Conservatism / Jerry Z. Muller.

* Conservatism in America since 1930: a reader / Gregory L.

* Conservatism / Noel O ' Sullivan.

* The Meaning of Conservatism / Roger Scruton.

* The Graphic Guide to Conservatism: a visual primer on the conservative worldview / Olivier Ballou.

In the 1920s Masuria remained a heartland of Conservatism with the German National People's Party as strongest party.

* G. Horowitz, " Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism in Canada: An Interpretation ", CJEPS ( 1966 )

Disraeli's old reputation as the " Tory democrat " and promoter of the welfare state fell away as historians showed he that Disraeli had few proposals for social legislation in 1874-80, and that the 1867 Reform Act did not reflect a vision Conservatism for the unenfranchised working man.

" Professor Paul Smith argues that, " into the ‘ progressive ’ strain of modern Conservatism he simply will not fit.

One Nation Conservatism was the party's dominant ideology in the 20th century until the rise of Thatcherism in the 1970s, and included in its ranks Conservative Prime Ministers such as Stanley Baldwin, Harold Macmillan and Edward Heath.

The basis of One-Nation Conservatism is a belief in social cohesion, and its adherents support social institutions that maintain harmony between different interest groups, classes, and — more recently — different races or religions.

Ideologically, One Nation Conservatism identifies itself with a broad liberal conservative stance.