Approach to government favoring the maintenance of existing institutions and identified with a number of Western political parties, such as the US Republican, British Conservative, German Christian Democratic, and Australian Liberal parties. It tends to be explicitly nondoctrinaire and pragmatic but generally emphasizes free-enterprise capitalism, minimal government intervention in the economy, rigid law and order, and the importance of national traditions.
Pravac mišljenja i težnji onih koji žele da se održava i čuva staro, ono što se zateklo i nasledilo (u privatnom, društvenom, političkom itd. životu). (lat.)
Odbojnost prema promenama, konzervativizam (lat.)
Političko-socijalna shvatanja i načela torijevaca.