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  2. Reactionary - Wikipedia

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    In popular usage, reactionary refers to a strong traditionalist conservative political perspective of a person opposed to social, political, and economic change. [3] [4] Reactionary ideologies can be radical in the sense of political extremism in service to re-establishing past conditions.

  3. Political spectrum - Wikipedia

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    Greenberg and Jonas posit that high ideological rigidity can be motivated by "particularly strong needs to reduce fear and uncertainty" and is a primary shared characteristic of "people who subscribe to any extreme government or ideology, whether it is right-wing or left-wing".

  4. Conservatism - Wikipedia

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    Singapore's conservative party is the People's Action Party (PAP), which promotes conservative values in the form of Asian democracy and Asian values. [177] These values include: nation before community and society above self; family as the basic unit of society; regard and community support for the individual; consensus instead of contention ...

  5. Left–right political spectrum - Wikipedia

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    The conservative right has defended entrenched prerogatives, privileges and powers; the left has attacked them. The right has been more favorable to the aristocratic position, to the hierarchy of birth or of wealth; the left has fought for the equalization of advantage or of opportunity, for the claims of the less advantaged.

  6. What is a Conservative? Understanding how the term works in ...

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    Seeking a more positive definition, the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, defines conservatism as "the political philosophy that sovereignty resides in the person.

  7. The Contradictions of Conservative Masculinity - AOL

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    Indeed, the contradictions of conservative masculinity are key to its appeal. Christopher Ewing is an assistant professor of history at Purdue University. His research examines sexuality, race ...

  8. Liberal conservatism - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, newer liberal-conservative parties (such as New Democracy in Greece, the Social Democratic Party in Portugal, the People's Party in Spain, Forza Italia /The People of Freedom/ Forza Italia in Italy, the Union for a Popular Movement/The Republicans in France and most centre-right parties from countries once belonging to the ...

  9. Varieties of criticism - Wikipedia

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    The conservative criticism is typically that there has already been too much change, of the wrong kind, and that this change has led people astray – that people should return to how things were always done in the past. A return to the 'correct' tradition, 'correct' ways of the past, is the only big change many conservative critics are ...