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This article analyzes the main thinking modes and principles of classical conservatism. This concept is due to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France and his followers' contemplations. Although in the passage of time different schools have derived from classical set, they share certain common thinking modes and principles. Conservatism, liberalism, and socialism are three mutually competing political philosophies. Conservatism values traditions and customs, prejudice, and natural authorities, like family, church, and local communities. They are answers that have been discovered to enduring questions, not arbitrary rules and conventions. They assist people to act and react in situations they don't fully master.

This article discusses how innovations gave diffused over time in the municipal administration in Finland. This is done by presenting first a theoretical frame of reference and then empirical data over eight policy‐innovations in Finnish cities and 39 rural communes. The results show that more research is needed before diffusion of innovations in the municipal administration can be more completely understood.