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Characteristics
- The Right includes conservatives, reactionaries, capitalists, monarchists, nationalists and fascists
- Human nature "given," constant, improvable but not perfectible
- Preference for private, "mediating" institutions
- Emphasis on custom, culture (individual as embedded in, shielded by, mediating bodies: family, church, union, profession)
- Tend to natural law [Law as an act of reason]
- Inclined to regulate economy through market choices Incline to decentralization
- Emphasize liberty
- Sympathetic to institutional religion
- Tend toward "quietism," meliorism, incremental reform, willingness to tolerate
- Preference for local, national
Institutes & "Think Tanks"
