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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. As a complex and multifaceted world-view, conservatism is often pigeonholed and partially understood. And while the nature of conservative ideology is warmly contested among scholars, no-one can deny its prominence in contemporary debates and its effects on the politics of everyday life. These 16 essays written by expert scholars and specialists offer a broad survey of conservative thought that extends beyond typical historical and geographic boundaries to include past thinkers like Plato and Edmund Burke, non-European conservative traditions such as Japan and Russia, and political 'practitioners' including Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Charles de Gaulle. Each essay grapples with short primary source extracts while offering instructive criticism and commentary. Conservative Moments offers students a useful, accessible, and comprehensive exposition of this political ideology.

A review essay on books by (1) Mark Garnett & Philip Lynch (Eds), The Conservatives in Crisis: The Tories after 1997 (Manchester, UK: Manchester U Press, 2003); (2) E. H. H. Green, Ideologies of Conservatism: Conservative Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century (Oxford, UK: Oxford U Press, 2002); (3) Ted Honderich, Conservatism: Burke, Nozick, Bush, Blair? (London: Pluto, 2005); & (4) Bruce Pilbeam, Conservatism in Crisis? Anglo-American Conservative Ideology after the Cold War (London: Palgrave, 2003).

To test the notion (derived from early studies with the F-scale and the TFI scale) that conservative parents nurture conservative offspring (and that liberal parents nurture liberal offspring) the modified Conservatism scale was administered to a sample of New Zealand• schoolchildren
and their parents. Conservatism/liberalism in parents is associated with the presence of similar attitudes in their children. The greatest attitudinal similarities were between fathers and their sons and mothers and their daughters. It is suggested that children identify with and introject
the attitudes of the same sex-parent.

The Conservative Party has been the dominant force in twentieth-century British politics. This is a systematic survey of the history of the Conservative Party from 1900 to John Major's election victory of 1992. The team of expert contributors includes both historians and political scientists

Prospects for the Conservative (Tory) Party following its May 1, 1997 election defeat by Tony Blair and the Labour Party; Great Britain.

A controversial portrait of the thirty-fifth president explores his less-recognized roles in promoting anti-communism, tax cuts, free trade, and other agendas that had distinctly conservative stances

Argues that former US President Ronald Reagan adopted a foreign policy tradition that drew on elements of realism & liberal internationalism: conservative internationalism. This tradition is manifest in the foreign policy choices of Thomas Jefferson, James K. Polk, & Harry Truman, who, along with Reagan, are seen to have expanded freedom abroad through the assertive use of military force more than other US presidents. The eleven principal tenets of the conservative internationalist tradition are identified, & it is distinguished from realism & liberal internationalism. These are then illustrated with a look at the policies of Jefferson (vs Alexander Hamilton & realists), Polk (vs Andrew Jackson & nationalists), Truman (vs Franklin Roosevelt & liberal internationalists), & Reagan (vs Jimmy Carter & liberal internationalists & Richard Nixon & realists). What conservative internationalism offers the current debate on terrorism, opportunities for freedom, connection & timing of force & diplomacy, & local democracy is considered. Adapted from the source document.