Discuss how and why the New Right Conservative ideologies developed in the period from late 1970s through to the 1990s

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A2 Governemnt and Politics Assignment No.2

Imran Miah

22/11/04

Discuss how and why the New Right Conservative ideologies developed in the period from late 1970s through to the 1990s

The Conservatives have often been described as a part without ideology and their "lack of baggage" has ensured they kept up with the electorate throughout the 19th and 20th century.

In early post 1945 period pragmatic and paternalistic ideas dominated conservatism throughout much of the western world. The remains of authoritarian conservatism collapsed with the overthrowing of the Portuguese and Spanish dictatorships in the 1970s.Just as conservatives had come to accept political democracy during the 19th century, after 1945 they came to embrace a Keynesian and welfarist form of social democracy. This tendency was confirmed by the rapid and sustained economic growth of the post war years, the" long boom" which appeared to bear out the success of "managed capitalism".

During the 1970s however a set of radical ideas developed within conservatism directly challenging the Keynesian and welfarist orthodoxy. The two principles, which can be identified within it, are neo liberalism revived support for classical liberal economics for the free market ideas of Adam Smith.