Progressive conservatism

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Progressive conservatism (i.e. conservative progressivism) is a syncretic political ideology that combines conservative and progressive policies. While still supportive of a market economy, it stresses the importance of government intervention to contribute to the common good. Progressive conservatism first arose in Germany and the United Kingdom in the 1870s and 1880s under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli respectively. Disraeli's 'One Nation' Toryism has since become the central progressive conservative tradition in the UK. In the UK, the prime ministers Disraeli, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan, David Cameron and Theresa May have been described as progressive conservatives. The Catholic Church's Rerum Novarum (1891) is said to advocate a progressive conservative doctrine known as social Catholicism. In the United States, Theodore Roosevelt has been the principal figure identified with progressive conservatism...

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