Conservatism
Political tradition that values order, customs, family, and consolidated institutions, preferring gradual and prudent change over rupture, based on historical experience and skepticism toward utopias.
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In one sentence
I want a society that preserves customs, family and institutions, changing slowly and with skepticism toward utopias and ruptures.
Political axes
Profile across the 12 axes
- Leaning · Unitary
Structure
- Balanced
Representation
- Leaning · Security
Power
- Leaning · Assimilation
Immigration
- Leaning · Militarist
Diplomacy
- Leaning · Nationalist
Intervention
- Leaning · Private
Economy
- Leaning · Free market
Control
- Balanced
Trade
- Strong · Religious
Religion
- Leaning · Traditionalist
Morality
- Balanced
Technology
What sets this ideology apart
Control
Leans further toward free market than 79% of the 243 ideologies in the catalog.
Ideology median 64This ideology 35
Of all the axes, Control is where it stands furthest from the rest.
Structure
On Structure, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Ideology median 36This ideology 39
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
Personalities
Edmund Burke
The father of modern conservatism, Burke defended prudent reform, tradition, and institutions against abstract rationalism and revolutionary rupture, harshly criticizing the excesses of the French Revolution.
Closest, by dimension
PoliticallyCiceroStatesman and philosopher97%
SociallyJordan PetersonPsychologist and essayist97%
EconomicallyThomas EdisonInventor and businessman98%
Other compatible profiles
PoliticsMatteo SalviniPolitician96%
PhilosophyRoger ScrutonPhilosopher95%
PoliticsCarl Gustaf Emil MannerheimMarshal and statesman95%
PoliticsCarlos LacerdaJournalist and governor95%
PoliticsFlávio BolsonaroPolitician95%
PoliticsJair BolsonaroPolitician94%
PoliticsRonaldo CaiadoGovernor and physician94%
PoliticsDwight D. EisenhowerGeneral and statesman94%
The most distant
Countries
Reference country
United Kingdom
Liberal-financial monarchyA parliamentary monarchy, the United Kingdom has a long liberal and democratic tradition, a market economy, and a strong financial sector, maintaining global influence after leaving the European Union in the process known as Brexit.
Other close countries
Georgia
Westernizing-frontier republicA semi-presidential republic in the Caucasus, Georgia pursues integration with the European Union and NATO, maintains an open market economy, and faces Russian occupation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia since 2008.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyParaná (Brazil)Agro-industrial conservative region95%
SociallySanta Catarina (Brazil)Industrial-conservative region97%
EconomicallyUnited StatesLiberal-federal republic100%
The most distant
Republican Rome
509–27 a.C.An aristocratic republic of antiquity, Rome balanced consuls, Senate, and tribunes of the plebs in a mixed system of elective magistracies, expanding across the Mediterranean through citizen legions and a strong cult of civic virtue.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyRenaissance Florence1115–153293%
SociallyRhodesia1965–197989%
EconomicallyOld Swiss Confederacy1291–179894%
The most distant
Ideological proximity
Close ideologies
Closest within Right
- Right
Neoconservatism
Right-wing current that unites free markets, traditional values, and an interventionist foreign policy, advocating the promotion of democracy and national interests through military force and global leadership.
- Right
National Liberalism
Right-wing current that combines free markets, free trade, and limited government with strong national identity, cultural assimilation, traditional and religious values, and a robust military.
- Right
American Conservatism
Platform of the Republican Party, combining border security and deportations, tariffs and industrial protectionism, tax cuts and deregulation, gun rights, Christian values and returning abortion to the states.
Closest in other spectrums
- Center
Conservative Centrism
Centrist branch that combines economic moderation and institutional respect with social conservatism, valuing family, religion, order, and gradual change without joining the authoritarian right or populist radicalism.
- Center
Liberal Developmentalism
The East Asian Tiger model (Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong): champions free markets, foreign trade and private enterprise as engines of growth, paired with an active technocratic state that plans infrastructure, education and strategic industrialization, stopping short of closed protectionism or hard authoritarian control.
- Center
Zionism
The Jewish national movement founded by Theodor Herzl in 1897, which sought a Jewish state in the Land of Israel as a response to antisemitism and led to the creation of Israel in 1948, uniting nation, the Hebrew language, and return to the ancestral land.
The most distant ideology
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