Conservative Party

In Professor Critchlow’s book “The Conservative Ascendancy”, we are provided history of the rise of the conservative right in modern America in the latter half of the twentieth century. We are delivered the earliest dilemmas after the crushing Goldwater defeat in 1964, through the rise and fall of the “Rockefeller” brand of Republicanism to Reagan through the Bush era. His history of the rise of conservative ascendancy from the earliest days of Goldwater forward brought back many memories and…

Calgary’s Progressive Conservative MP Jim Hawkens. By 1991 he had completed a masters degree in economics. Harper is the first prime minister since Joe Clark in 1979 without a law degree. In 1986 he left Hawkes’s side, and the year after he was involved in the founding of a new political party, called the socially conservative Reform Party of Canada. He continued focus on politics and public policy analysis, and in 1993 he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Reform Party…

Texas was not always the conservative and mainly Republican state as most people know it to be today. Before the 1970s, Texas was predominantly Democratic. For many years before the 70s very few Republicans were elected or held office. However, that all began to change. During the 70s and 80s there were a lot of people migrating into Texas. These people heard about the money they could make off of Texas’s farm land, cattle industry, oil and steel industry. These people had a little bit more…

October 19, 2015 There are four parties who are participating in the upcoming 2015 election, they each have a strong platform which attract different groups of people. The topic I chose to write about is the economy, which I believe is the most significant issue that we are facing today. The Conservative party says that they will protect our economy by having a balanced budget, the Liberal Party says they will have a policy on middle class tax cut, the NDP party says that they will kick start…

Federal Election 2015, the four major parties: The Conservative Party, The Liberal Party, The New Democratic Party and The Green Party has promote different plans aiming to improve and enhance a better Canada. Each party has a different focus on their plans: The Conservative Party aiming to protect the economy and create jobs; The Liberal Party focusing on investing the future, helping the middle class and creating an honest and open government; The New Democratic Party promoting quality…

In this quiz, I am considered a “core conservative” which for the most part I agree with. Personally, I would call myself more of a hard-right libertarian but my differences with core conservatives are few and we agree on most things. The biggest disagreement that I have with core conservatives is on diplomacy. Only 13% of core conservatives believe that “Good diplomacy is the best way to ensure peace” and I think this is incorrect. I believe that it is tyrannical and wrong for countries to use…

Despite the existence of dozens of third parties, the United States government is dominated by two parties – the Democrats and the Republicans. With this in mind, Democrats and Republicans have the greatest influence in pushing their party’s agendas and passing legislation they find favorable. Compromise is necessary; however, this has become difficult as the two polarized parties struggle to find common ground in their political ideologies. Political polarization can be simply defined as the…

The Republican’s Ideological Shift from Liberal to Conservative Abraham Lincoln once said, “The legitimate object of government is to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they can not, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves." 130 years later, Ronald Reagan said, “Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem." Both of these men were epochal leaders of their party, the GOP. But their ideas about the role of government in our lives…

Is the red-America/blue-America split real? What is party polarization? Party polarization is the greater agreement on policy stand within each party and sharper policy differences between the Democrats and Republicans. Ever since the political parties in America were created, they have strived to gain power and achieve certain policy goals. Political scientist James Q. Wilson argues “that the cultural split is deep and is reflected in party competition and the public opinion of partisans…

of the future. The Clinton administration has just ended, and it seems to me, that although the political parties are undeniably in decline, it is not a serious decline, and is in fact, just part of a natural pattern. As the parties decline, it can be noted, by looking at the data reported by the Pew Center for the People and the Press, that we are likely to remain in an era of conservative politics. The data also suggests that the independent voters may not play a significant role in future…