Wets and Dries Resurgent? Intra-Party Alignments Among Contemporary Conservative Party Members
Wets and Dries Resurgent? Intra-Party Alignments Among Contemporary Conservative Party Members
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干湿复苏？
DOI：
10.1093/pa/gsq044
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Webb P
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Webb P
本文绘制了新的调查数据，以显示当今保守党成员中存在三种主要的思想倾向，它们在一系列当代政治问题上存在显著差异。自由党保守派是最年轻的，也是男性最多的，自称是这些倾向中最活跃的，他们以对欧洲和移民、对环保主义或女权主义价值观的敌意最少而闻名，但传统主义保守党--党内倾向中规模最大、工人阶级最多、女性最多--在许多具体的提案和问题上出人意料地进步，包括税收和公共支出、性别问题和政治体制改革。撒切尔夫人支持减税和削减开支，但对环保主义、欧洲一体化、移民和性别相关改革怀有敌意。总体而言，这表明，就戴维·卡梅伦自2005年以来一直试图推动该党朝着总体上更中间和更进步的方向发展而言，他经常遵循草根阶层的观点；尤其是传统主义的保守党似乎支持他的大部分战略主旨。尽管如此，在政府削减公共开支的议程上，党内关系显然存在紧张的空间。这表明，上世纪80年代“湿的”和“干的”之间的旧冲突有可能卷土重来。
This article maps new survey data to show that there are three main ideological tendencies among Conservative Party members today and that they differ significantly on a range of contemporary political issues. The Liberal conservatives are the youngest, most male, claim to be the most active of these tendencies, and are distinguished by being the least hostile to Europe and immigration, to environmentalism or to feminist values, but the Traditionalist Tories—the largest, most working class and most female of the intra-party tendencies—are surprisingly progressive on a number of specific proposals and issues, including taxation and public spending, gender issues and the institutional reform of politics. Thatcherites support cuts in tax and spending, but are hostile to environmentalism, European integration, immigration and gender-related reforms. Overall, this suggests that, in so far as David Cameron has sought to push the party in a generally more ‘centrist’ and progressive direction since 2005, he has often gone with the grain of grassroots opinion; the Traditionalist Tories in particular would appear to endorse the thrust of much of his strategy. That said, there is clear scope for intra-party tension over the government's agenda of cuts in public expenditure. This points to a potential revival of the old conflicts between ‘wets’ and ‘dries’ of the 1980s.