Question

Activity 4: COMPARE AND CONTRAST!
Direction: Describe the objects and generate a list of differences. Determine significant likenesses and differences of political ideologies.

Answer 1

Explanation:

1. Variants of conservatism include: liberal conservatism, libertarian conservatism, fiscal conservatism, national conservatism, cultural conservatism, social conservatism, and religious conservatism.
2. The meaning of “conservatism” in America has little in common with the way the word is used elsewhere.
3. Major movements within American conservatism include economic conservatism, social conservatism, neoconservatism, and paleoconservatism.

Key Terms

1. Fiscal conservatism: the economic philosophy of prudence in government spending and debt
2. Liberal conservatism: Ideologies that combine the advocacy of laissez-faire economic principles, such as respect for contracts, defense of private property and free markets with the belief in notions such as natural inequality, the importance of religion and the value of traditional morality through a framework of limited, constitutional, representative government.
3. libertarian conservatism: Describes certain political ideologies within the United States and Canada which combine libertarian economic issues with aspects of conservatism