Editing Liberal conservatism (section)

=== Relation to American conservatism ===
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In the United States, conservatives often combine the economic [[individualism]] of classical liberals with a [[Edmund Burke|Burkean]] form of conservatism that emphasizes the natural inequalities between men, the irrationality of human behavior as the basis for the human drive for order and stability and the rejection of natural rights as the basis for government.<ref>Grigsby, Ellen: Analyzing Politics: An Introduction to Political Science. Cengage Learning, 2011. p.106-112</ref> From a different perspective, [[Conservatism in the United States|American conservatism]] (a "hybrid of conservatism and classical liberalism") has exalted three tenets of Burkean conservatism, namely the diffidence toward the power of the state, the preference of liberty over equality and for [[patriotism]] while rejecting the three remaining tenets, namely loyalty to traditional institutions and hierarchies, skepticism regarding progress and elitism.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rDd5tKWT4D4C |title=The Right Nation: Why America is Different |first1=Adrian |last1=Wooldridge |first2=John |last2=Micklethwait |year=2011 |publisher=Penguin Books Limited |via=Google Books |isbn=9780241958896}}</ref>{{clarify|This passage needs clarification, as it references three “tenets“ then introduces two clauses both containing two subjects, and thus is completely opaque which of the four choices given is among the three claimed tenets. As written, it appears to introduce only two (albeit each of which contains two referants): “loyalty to” two constructs, and skepticism regarding two others.|date=August 2021}} Consequently, the term ''liberal conservatism'' is not used in the United States. [[Modern liberalism in the United States|Modern American liberalism]] happens to be quite different from [[Liberalism in Europe|European liberalism]] and occupies the [[Centre-left politics|centre-left]] of the political spectrum, in contrast to many European countries where liberalism is often more associated with the [[Centrism|centre]] and [[Centre-right politics|centre-right]] while [[social democracy]] makes up a substantial part of the centre-left. The opposite is true in [[Latin America]], where [[Economic liberalism|economically liberal]] conservatism is often labelled under the rubric of [[neoliberalism]] both in popular culture and academic discourse.<ref>Bethell, Leslie: The Cambridge History of Latin America: Latin America since 1930. Cambridge University Press, 1991.</ref>

Although [[libertarian conservatism]] has similarities to liberal conservatism with both being influenced by classical liberal thought,{{sfn|van de Haar|2015|p=71}} libertarian conservatism is far more [[anti-statist]] than liberal conservatism and is much more hostile to government intervention in both social and economic matters.{{sfn|Heywood|2004|p=337}} Combining [[Cultural conservatism|conservative cultural]] principles but with less social intervention and a more ''[[laissez faire]]'' economic system. [[Neoconservatism]] is sometimes described as the same or similar to liberal conservatism in Europe.<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Oleksii Stus |editor2=Dmytro Finberg |editor3=Leonid Sinchenko |title=Ukrainian Dissidents: An Anthology of Texts |quote= The tendency of neoconservatism (liberal conservatism) is most clearly represented by the literary ...|date=2021 |page=346 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9783838215518 }}</ref> However, [[Peter Lawler (academic)|Peter Lawler]] has regarded neoconservatism in the United States as conservative liberalism and distinguished it from liberal conservatism.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lawler |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Lawler (academic) |year=2002 |title=Liberal Conservatism, Not Conservative Liberalism |url=http://www.mmisi.org/ir/39_01_2/lawler.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=[[The Intercollegiate Review]] |language=en |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=59-60 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727094427/http://www.mmisi.org/ir/39_01_2/lawler.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-27 |access-date=2025-03-05}}</ref>