Emory University political scientists Steven Webster and Alan Abramowitz believe they have identified a powerful cultural reflex that could help us to better understand the odd correlation
between social conservatism and climate denial.
However, a more likely link
between social conservatism and Euroscepticism is nationalism.
Firstly, nationalism is the most likely cause of the relationship
between social conservatism and Euroscepticism, and research in political science and political psychology have established a link between social conservative and nationalist attitudes.
Not exact matches
The old alliance
between sensible LIBERTARIANISM and
SOCIAL CONSERVATISM can't hold in the face of the vanishing middle class, the birth dearth combined with increasing longevity, the depoliticizing challenges of the 21st competitive marketplace, the irresponsibility of our techno - meritocracy, our inability to keep Locke in the Locke box on issues having to do with families and our erotic lives, and the connection
between increasing individualism and growing dependency on the state summed up in the phrase «single mom.»
Murphy wrote that Republicans had to choose
between the «purists» who offer «steadfast opposition to emerging
social trends like multiculturalism and secularization» and «pragmatists» who favor a «more secular and modernizing
conservatism that eschews most
social issues.»
By glossing quickly over the dissimilarities
between Catholic
social teaching and American
conservatism, however, he seems to minimize the distinctiveness of Catholic
social teaching as a political philosophy in its own right.
Ideologically, there had already existed an affinity
between conservatism and anti-abortionism, but as Ziegler shows, these
social currents strengthened and deepened the bond
between the Republican party and the pro-life movement.
Perhaps there is a tussle for the Muslim electoral soul,
between innate
social conservatism / high value placed on family and community / entrepreneurial spirit (all pulling towards Conservatism) and lower socio - economic status / first or second generation immigration mentality (pulling towa
conservatism / high value placed on family and community / entrepreneurial spirit (all pulling towards
Conservatism) and lower socio - economic status / first or second generation immigration mentality (pulling towa
Conservatism) and lower socio - economic status / first or second generation immigration mentality (pulling towards Labour).
As such, fiscal
conservatism today exists somewhere
between classical liberalism and contemporary consequentialist political philosophies, and is often influenced by coinciding levels of
social conservatism.