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New Right is used in several countries as a descriptive term for various forms of conservative, right-wing, or self-proclaimed dissident oppositional movements and groups that emerged in the mid- to late twentieth century. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...

New Right by country

Australia

In Australia the "New Right" refers to a movement in the late 1970s and 1980s which advocated economically liberal and socially conservative policies (as opposed to the "old right" which advocated economically conservative policies). Unlike the United Kingdom and United States, but like neighbouring New Zealand, the Australian Labor Party initiated many "New Right" policy reforms (the Third Way), but desisted from others, such as wholesale labour market deregulation (eg WorkChoices), a GST, and welfare reform including "workfare", which John Howard and the Liberal Party of Australia were to initiate when they won office in 1996. ALP redirects here. ... Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, adherents of the Third Way The Third Way, or Radical center, is a centrist political philosophy of governance that embraces a mix of market and interventionist philosophies. ... WorkChoices, or the Workplace Relations Act 1996 as amended by the Workplace Relations Amendment (Workchoices) Act 2005, came into effect in March 2006. ... The GST (Goods and Services Tax) is a value added tax of 10% on most goods and services sold in Australia. ... Welfare reform is the name for a policy change in countries with a state-administered social welfare system to reduce dependence on welfare, as demanded by political conservatives. ... Workfare is an alternative model to conventional Social Welfare systems. ... John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. ... The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. ...

Economic liberalism, also called Economic Rationalism in Australia, is a philosophy which tends to advocate a free market economy, increased deregulation, privatisation, lower direct taxation and higher indirect taxation, and a reduction of the size of the Welfare State. The politicians favouring New Right ideology were referred to as "dries", while those advocating continuation of conservative economic policies were called "wets" (the term "wets" was similarly used in Britain to refer to those Conservatives who opposed Thatcherite economic policies, but "dries" in this context was much rarer in British usage). This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Economic rationalism is an Australian term in discussion of microeconomic policy, applicable to the economic policy of many governments around the world, in particular during the 1980s and 1990s. ... A free market is an idealized market, where all economic decisions and actions by individuals regarding transfer of money, goods, and services are voluntary, and are therefore devoid of coercion and theft (some definitions of coercion are inclusive of theft). Colloquially and loosely, a free market economy is an economy... Deregulation is the process by which governments remove, reduce, or simplify restrictions on business and individuals in order to (in theory) encourage the efficient operation of markets. ... Privatization (sometimes privatisation, denationalization, or — especially in India — disinvestment) is the process of transferring property, from public ownership to private ownership. ... The term direct tax has more than one meaning: a colloquial meaning and, in the United States, a constitutional law meaning. ... An indirect tax (such as sales tax, value added tax (VAT), or goods and services tax (GST)) is collected from the person who bears the tax by intermediaries and the proceeds passed on to government. ... The Welfare State of the United Kingdom was prefigured in the William Beveridge Report in 1942, which identified five Giant Evils in society: squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease. ... The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), the largest in terms of public membership, and the oldest political party in the United Kingdom. ... The Right Honourable Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925) is a British politician and the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, a position she held from 1979 to 1990. ...

Croatia

In Croatia there is a political party named "Croatian New Right", whose leader is a philosophical-political writer, Mladen Schwartz. The semi-official organ of the party is the monthly ("Ultimatum!"), which also publishes articles in non-Croatian languages.

France

In France, the New Right (or Nouvelle Droite) has been used as a term to describe a modern think-tank of French political philosophers and intellectuals led by Alain de Benoist. Although accused by some critics as being "far-right" in their beliefs, they themselves claim that their ideas transcend the traditional "Left/Right" divide and actively encourages free debate. Nouvelle Droite (English: New Right) is a school of political thought founded largely on the works of Alain de Benoist and GRECE. Although most popular and well known in France, Nouvelle Droite has been very influential in other European right-wing movements. ... Alain de Benoist (born 11 December 1943) is a French academic, founder of the Nouvelle Droite (English: ) and head of the French think tank GRECE. Benoist is little known outside his native France but his writings have been highly influential on anti-globalist thought, primarily on the political right, with... Far right, extreme right, ultra-right, or radical right are terms used to discuss the qualitative or relative position a group or person occupies within a political spectrum. ... Look up left in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In jurisprudence and law, a right is the legal or moral entitlement to do or refrain from doing something or to obtain or refrain from obtaining an action, thing or recognition in civil society. ...

Germany

In Germany the "Neue Rechte" (literally new right) consists of two parts the "Jungkonservative" (lit. young conservatives), which search for followers in the civically part of the population and have as main organ the newspaper "Junge Freiheit" (http://www.junge-freiheit.de/) and the other part is the "Nationalrevolutionäre" (national revolutionists), those search for followers in the ultra-left part of the German population, and use the rhetorics of left-wing nazi politicians such as Gregor and Otto Strasser. Neue Rechte (English: ) is a German political movement, founded as opposition to the New Left generation of the 1960s. ... Strasserism refers to the strand of neo-Nazism that calls for socialism to be initiated alongside nationalism. ...

Netherlands

The New Right is the name of a political party in the Netherlands. Michiel Smit Nieuw Rechts (New Right) is a nationalistic Dutch political party, founded by Michiel Smit in 2003, History Michiel Smit was secretary of Pim Fortuyns local Leefbaar Rotterdam party. ...

New Zealand

In New Zealand, as in Australia, it was the ostensibly social democratic Labour Party that initially adopted "New Right" economic policies, while also pursuing social liberal stances such as decriminalisation of male homosexuality, pay equity for women and adopting a nuclear-free policy. This meant temporary realignment within New Zealand politics, as "New Right" middle-class voters voted Labour at the New Zealand general election 1987 due to approval of its economic policies. At first, Labour corporatised many former government departments and state assets, then emulated the Conservative Thatcher administration and privatised them altogether during Labour's second term of office. However, recession and privatisation together led to increasing strains within the Labour Party, which led to schism, and the exit of Jim Anderton and his NewLabour Party, which later formed part of the Alliance Party with the Greens and other opponents of New Right economics. The New Zealand Labour Party is a New Zealand political party. ... The 1987 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament. ... Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (née Roberts; born 13 October 1925) served as British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 until 1990, being the first and to date only woman to hold either post. ... James Patrick Anderton, almost always referred to as Jim Anderton, is leader of the Progressive Party, a political party in the New Zealand Parliament. ... NewLabour Party logo NewLabour was the name chosen by Jim Anderton, an MP and former President of the New Zealand Labour Party, for his new left-of-centre party in 1989. ... Current Alliance logo The Alliance, when referring to New Zealand politics, refers to a left-wing political party. ...

However, dissent and schism were not to be limited to the Labour Party and Alliance Party alone. During the Labour Party's second term in office, National selected Ruth Richardson as Opposition finance spokesperson, and when National won the 1990 general election, Richardson became Minister of Finance, while Jenny Shipley became Minister of Social Welfare. Richardson introduced deunionisation legislation, known as the Employment Contracts Act, in 1991, while Shipley presided over social welfare benefit cuts, designed to reduce "welfare dependency" - both core New Right policy initiatives. Current Alliance logo The Alliance, when referring to New Zealand politics, refers to a left-wing political party. ... Ruth Richardson (born December 13, 1950) served as New Zealands Minister of Finance from 1990 to 1993, and is known for her strong pursuit of radical economic reforms (sometimes known as Ruthanasia). Early life Richardson was born in southern Taranaki on 13 December 1950. ... The 1990 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliaments 43rd term. ... Jenny Shipley, DCNZM, (b. ...

In the early nineties, maverick National MP Winston Peters also came to oppose New Right economic policies, and led his elderly voting bloc out of the National Party. As a result, his New Zealand First anti-monetarist party has become a coalition partner to both National (1996 - 1998) and Labour (2005- ) led coalition governments. Due to the introduction of the MMP electoral system, a New Right "Association of Consumers and Taxpayers" party, known as ACT New Zealand was formed by ex-Labour New Right-aligned Cabinet Ministers like Richard Prebble and others, and maintaining existing New Right policy initiatives such as the Employment Contracts Act, while also introducing US-style "welfare reform." ACT New Zealand aspired to become National's centre-right coalition partner, but has been hampered by lack of party unity and populist leadership that often lacked strategic direction. The New Zealand National Party (National or the Nats) currently forms the second-largest (in terms of seats) political party represented in the New Zealand Parliament, and thus functions as the core of the parliamentary Opposition. ... Winston Raymond Peters, PC, (born April 11, 1945) is a New Zealand politician and the current Minister of Foreign Affairs, outside cabinet. ... New Zealand First functions as a political party in New Zealand. ... In 1993 New Zealand adopted Mixed Member Proportional as its electoral system after many years of first-past-the-post. ... ACT New Zealand is a free market liberal party in the New Zealand Parliament. ... The Honourable Richard William Prebble CBE, born 7 February 1948, was for many years a member of the New Zealand Parliament. ... Welfare reform is the name for a policy change in countries with a state-administered social welfare system to reduce dependence on welfare, as demanded by political conservatives. ...

As for Labour and National themselves, their fortunes have been mixed. Labour was out of office for most of the nineties, only regaining power when Helen Clark led it to victory and a Labour/Alliance coalition and centre-left government (1999 - 2002). However, the Alliance disintegrated in 2002. For other persons named Helen Clark, see Helen Clark (disambiguation). ...

National was defeated in 1999 due to the absence of a suitable, stable coalition partner given New Zealand First's partial disintegration after Winston Peters abandoned the prior National-led coalition. When Bill English took over National, it was thought that he might lead the Opposition away from its prior hardline New Right economic and social policies, but his indecisiveness and lack of firm policy direction led to ACT New Zealand gaining the New Right middle-class voting basis in 2002. When Don Brash took over, New Right middle-class voters returned to National's fold, causing National's revival in fortunes at the New Zealand general election 2005. However, at the same time, ACT New Zealand strongly criticised it for deviating from its former New Right economic policy perspectives, and at the same election, National did little to enable ACT's survival. ACT currently has two Members of Parliament, and its survival depends on whether or not ACT leader Rodney Hide can retain his Epsom electorate seat at the next general election. Furthermore, Don Brash resigned as National party leader, being replaced by John Key, who is seen as a more moderate National MP. Simon William Bill English is a New Zealand politician, and former leader of the National Party from October 2001 to October 2003. ... ACT New Zealand is a free market liberal party in the New Zealand Parliament. ... Dr Donald Thomas Brash (born 24 September 1940), New Zealand politician, served as the Leader of the Opposition and parliamentary leader of the National Party, the countrys main Opposition party from 28 October 2003 to 27 November 2006. ... The 2005 New Zealand general election will be a nation-wide election for the New Zealand Parliament, and is to be held on 17 September 2005. ... ACT New Zealand is a free market liberal party in the New Zealand Parliament. ... Rodney Hide (born 16 December 1956), a New Zealand politician, became leader of the political party ACT New Zealand in 2004. ... For the American politician, see John A. Key. ...

As for the centre-left, Helen Clark and her Labour-led coalition have been criticised from ex-Alliance members and non-government organisations for their alleged lack of attention to centre-left social policies, while trade union membership has recovered due to Labour's repeal of the Employment Contracts Act 1991 and labour market deregulation and the deunionisation that had accompanied it in the nineties. It is plausible that Clark and her Cabinet are influenced by Tony Blair and his British Labour Government, which pursues a similar balancing act between social and fiscal responsibility while in government. For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency...

Romania

In Romania, there is a nationalist organization called "Noua Dreaptă" (New Right). The organization was founded in 2000. In 2006 the organization performed its most important show of force by staging a peaceful anti-gay rally in Bucharest. The organization uses the paraphernalia of interwar Iron Guard and practices the cult of the slain Iron Guard leader Corneliu-Zelea Codreanu. Noua Dreapta is an active member of the far-right European National Front and is thought to be linked to altermedia Romania, the country's most visited "alternative news" website. A political sticker displaying the Celtic cross and the words identitate naÅ£ională, revoluÅ£ie spirituală (national identity, spiritual revolution). ...

United Kingdom

Philosophy –New Right ideas were developed in the early eighties and took a very different view of elements of society such as family, education and crime, deviance in the United Kingdom, New Right more specifically refers to a strand of Conservatism that the likes of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan influenced. Thatcher's style of New Right ideology, known as Thatcherism was heavily influenced by the work of Friedrich Hayek (in particular the book The Road to Serfdom). They were ideologically committed to neo-liberalism as well as being socially conservative. Key policies included deregulation of business, a dismantling of the welfare state or ‘Nanny State’, privatization of nationalized industries and restructuring of the national workforce in order to increase industrial and economic flexibility in an increasingly global market. Similar policies were continued by the subsequent Conservative government under John Major and the mark of the New Right is evident in the New Labour government of the present.mb

Founding Fathers-
Ronald Reagan-President of the USA
James Q. Wilson- advisor to Regan. Ideas very unpopular among British sociologists
Margaret Thatcher- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Murray- New Right theorist spoke about Family and Crime and Deviance
George Erdos Norman Dennis_ a few of New Right thinkers who were sociologists rather than politicians and journalists. Wrote about the Families without fathers.
John Redwood- Conservative MP spoke about family
Chubb and Moe- New right theorists that spoke about education

Family - Much like functionalists New Right theorists see the family as the cornerstone of society. The Nuclear family is the ‘normal family’ in the view of the New Right. John Redwood: ‘the natural state should be the two-adult family caring for their children’. The New Right sees the family in a state of deterioration. They point to the following evidence to support their claims: lone-parent families, fatherless families and divorce rates.

Dennis and Erdos (founding fathers) say that fatherless families result in disadvantages for their children. On average they have poorer health and low educational attainment. This lack of a father potentially leads to irresponsible, immature and anti-social young men. Criticisms of the New Right Views on the family include arguments that they tend to blame the victims of disadvantaged families, and that they hold an idealized view of the past.

United States

In the United States, the New Right refers to a conservative political movement that coalesced through grassroots organizing in the years preceding the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater. The Goldwater campaign, though failing to unseat incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, galvanized the formation of a new political movement. In elite think-tanks and local community organizations alike, new policies, marketing strategies, and electoral strategies were crafted over the succeeding decades. The New Right succeeded in building a policy approach and electoral apparatus that propelled Ronald Reagan into the White House in the 1980 presidential election. The American New Right is distinct from and opposed to the more moderate tradition of the so-called Rockefeller Republicans. The New Right also differs from the Old Right on issues concerning foreign policy with the New Right being opposed to the non-interventionism of the Old Right. Though mostly ignored by scholars until the late 1980s, the formation of the New Right is now one of the fastest-growing areas of historical research. New Right activists denounced abortion, pornography, homosexuality, feminism, and especially affirmative action. American conservatism is a constellation of political ideologies within the United States under the blanket heading of conservative. ... Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–87) and the Republican Partys nominee for president in the 1964 election. ... “LBJ” redirects here. ... Reagan redirects here. ... For other uses, see White House (disambiguation). ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... In the United States, the term Rockefeller Republican refers to those members of the Republican party who hold moderate views similar to those of the late Nelson Rockefeller, governor of New York from 1959 to 1973 and vice president of the United States under President Gerald Ford in the mid... The Old Right refers to separate political groups in the United Kingdom and the United States. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ...

Ukraine

In Ukraine there is a metapolitical organization named "Ukrainian New Right - Mesogaia", whose leader is a philosophical-political writer, Oleg Gutsulyak. The semi-official organs of the party is the monthlies ("Mesogaia"), ("LNE-UA") which also publishes articles in Ukrainian and Russian languages. Ukrainian New Right are collaborate with the Eastern European Metapolitical Assotiation New Right "Thule-Sarmatia" [1] (Ukraine - Bulgaria - Russia - Azerbajdzhan - Tatarstan). Oleg B. Gutsulyak, Ph. ... Thule-Sarmatia is a cultural study group founded in Bulgaria, Ukraine and Russia 2004. ...

External link

• New Right - articles on New Right movements.