New Right

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The New Right (German: Neuerechte ) is a social movement that has grown into a social power since the 1980s. It not only exercises political power, but also exercises power of definition in the social and cultural field, and so on. a. as a countercurrent to the postwar welfare state consensus in Great Britain and the United States .

United States

In addition to politicians, the New Right also includes journalists, industrialists, church representatives and scientists. Its origins go back to the early 1960s. For the presidential election in 1964, the conservative candidate Barry Goldwater should be supported. Although he lost to incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson at the time, this election campaign developed into a network of so-called think tanks , conservative elite educational institutions, but also a grass-roots movement at the community level. This conservative network of research institutes and activists aimed to break the liberal dominance in politics, administration and culture. Here new political, marketing and election campaign strategies were developed that were based on the forms of action of the left social movements of the 1960s and focused on emotionality. They saw themselves as the antithesis of the New Left (German: " Neue Linke ") , which was influential in the 1960s and 1970s . The planning proved successful in 1980 when Ronald Reagan won the election, who was considered the protagonist of the New Right . Since then, the New Right has also gained more and more influence below the level of government, especially in opinion- forming. Under George W. Bush , especially after September 11, 2001 , the New Right , consisting of heterogeneous currents, gained even greater political influence.

Great Britain

For Great Britain , New Right describes a market-liberal countercurrent to the welfare state - corporatist post-war consensus. This consensus was based on four pillars: a Keynesian- oriented demand management with the aim of full employment, a mixed economy as an economic constitution with a combination of private and state-owned companies, institutionalized cooperation between government and trade unions, and the expansion of the welfare state according to the proposals of the Beveridge Report . Against this compromise a heterogeneous flow of opinion emerged in journalism and political economic liberals , neoliberals , monetarists , conservatives and neo-conservatives . Influenced by the theories of the economists Friedrich August von Hayek and Milton Friedman , they called for market economy reforms, the reduction of government spending, the "liberation" of the market, a return to traditional moral values ​​and argued against the "excesses" of the welfare state. David Collard coined the term New Right for this trend in the brochure The New Right - A Critique from 1968. From 1975 ideas of the New Right influenced the opposition politics of the Tories under the party leader Margaret Thatcher and shaped the socio-economic reforms of the Thatcher government (→ Thatcherism ).

See also

literature

  • Kubilay Yado Arin: The Role of Think Tanks in US Foreign Policy. From Clinton to Bush Jr. VS Springer Verlag, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-01043-0 , pp. 33-46, 87-98.
  • Lawrence Grossberg: We've Gotta Get out of this Place. Popular conservatism and postmodern culture. Routledge, New York 1992 (on the power of definition of the New Right in popular culture in the USA).
  • Dominik Geppert : Thatcher's Conservative Revolution - The Change of Direction of the British Tories (1975-1979). Oldenbourg, Munich 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kubilay Yado Arin: The Role of Think Tanks in US Foreign Policy. From Clinton to Bush Jr. VS Springer Verlag, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-01043-0 .
  2. ↑ Kubilay Yado Arin: The Role of Think Tanks in US Foreign Policy. From Clinton to Bush Jr. VS Springer Verlag, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-01043-0 , pp. 87-98.
  3. ↑ Bruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer, Jeffrey O. Nelson: American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia. ISI Books, Wilmington 2006, pp. 624-625.
  4. ^ Dominik Geppert: Thatcher's Conservative Revolution - The Change of Direction of the British Tories (1975-1979). Oldenbourg, 2002, pp. 145-147.
  5. ^ Dominik Geppert: Thatcher's Conservative Revolution - The Change of Direction of the British Tories (1975-1979). Oldenbourg, 2002, p. 227 ff.