Conservatism (disambiguation)

Conservatism is a set of political philosophies that favour tradition.

Conservatism or conservative may also refer to:

Politics and political philosophy

• Conservative political parties
• Traditionalist conservatism, a political philosophy emphasizing the need for the principles of natural law and transcendent moral order
• Social conservatism, the view that government should play a role in encouraging or enforcing traditional values or behaviors
• Paleoconservatism, an anti-communist and anti-authoritarian conservative movement in the U.S.
• Liberal conservatism, a variant of conservatism, combining conservative values and policies with liberal stances
• National conservatism, a variant of conservatism which concentrates more on national interests and traditional social/ethical views
• Neoconservatism, a political philosophy that emerged in the U.S. from the liberalism of the 1960s

Religion

• Conservative Christianity, groups or movements that give priority to traditional Christian beliefs and practices
• Conservative Judaism, a stream of Judaism that arose out of intellectual currents in Germany in the mid-19th century and took institutional form in the United States in the early 1900s
• Conservative Friends, members of a certain branch of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Other uses

• Conservative (language), a language form that has changed relatively little over its history
• Convention of conservatism, in accountancy
• Conservative force, a physical force whose work is path-independent
• Epistemic conservatism, a view about the structure of reasons or justification for belief

See also

• Conservative Party (disambiguation)
• Conservation (disambiguation)
• Conservative movement (disambiguation)
• Conserve (disambiguation)
• Conservatism (Bayesian)