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Caroline Howard December 2005 "Modern Conservatism is more concerned with economic freedom than with social stability" Discuss. There is debate among political scientists as to the extent to which the Neo-Conservative and Neo-Liberal elements that form Modern Conservative ideology can work coherently. This can be seen most poignantly in their Neo-Liberal commitment to economic freedom which directly contrasts the Conservative ideas of stability within society. Neo-Liberal economics have been influenced by Classical Liberalism, including Adam Smith and David Ricardo and Modern Conservative economic policy is merely a re-discoverance of free-market economics. Post-1945, Keynesianism had been the dominant economic policy, advocating "managed capitalism" but Modern Conservatives believed this was responsible for decline that had occurred in Britain. Their main aim in the late 1970s/early 1980s was to reverse this decline, even if it did cause social instability. Modern Conservatism ideology stipulates that governments cannot deliver economic stability/growth which they believe was the main factor in...

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