‘Modernising Conservatism’: The Northern Ireland Young Unionist Movement in the 1960s
2010; Routledge; Volume: 25; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/07907180903432069
ISSN1743-9078
Autores Tópico(s)Irish and British Studies
ResumoAbstract The origins of neo‐liberalism and neo‐conservatism may be found in the 1960s, when radical conservatives orientated towards the young and idealised the middle class as the primary agent of modernity. In Northern Ireland, a struggle for the soul of the Young Unionist Movement pitted a liberal anti‐sectarianism against a neo‐conservative belief in unionist destiny. The triumph of the latter contributed to the collapse of Ulster Unionist moral authority to govern the nationalist constituency of Northern Ireland.
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