Deconstructing Traditional Politics. Is the UK Tory Party Still Conservative?

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - General and Theories of International Politics, grade: A, , course: Politics of Industrial Societies, language: English, abstract: This paper critically examines the modern day phenomenon of Ideological Conservatism in accordance with the Conservatory Party of the United Kingdom. It does so by performing a cross reference between classical conservatism as proposed by Thomas Hobbes, with the present state of the party¿s ideology. This process takes into account the historical, social, economic and political evolution of the ideology itself in a post French Revolutionary context, and how this has provided the foundation upon which modern day Neo-Conservatism is built.