Historic conservatism in New Zealand

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Conservatism in New Zealand
Principles Agrarianism Economic liberalism Law and order Limited government Loyalism Monarchism Property rights Protectionism Rule of law Tradition
History Continuous Ministry Historic conservatism in New Zealand (pre–1930s)
Politicians Whitaker Atkinson Russell Massey Bell Coates Forbes Hamilton Holland Holyoake Marshall Muldoon Bolger Richardson Shipley Birch Copeland English Brash Key Bridges Muller Collins Luxon
Activists Ormond Farrar McCoskrie Slater Williams
Parties Active ACT New Zealand National Party New Zealand First New Conservatives Party Defunct Reform Party United Party Democrat Party New Zealand Party Christian Heritage Party Conservative Party Christian Democrats Progressive Greens Destiny New Zealand The Kiwi Party Focus NZ The Family Party
Organisations and media Auckland Future Citizens' Association Communities and Residents Coalition of Concerned Citizens Family First New Zealand Investigate Monarchy New Zealand National Front New Zealand Legion Taxpayers' Union Young Nationals
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Variants Authoritarian Corporatist Cultural Fiscal Green Liberal Libertarian Moderate National Paternalistic Populist Pragmatic Progressive Reactionary Religious Social Traditionalist Ultra
Principles Ancestral worship Authority Traditional Class collaboration Collective identity Cultural heritage Cultural values Culture of life Pro-Life Discipline Duty Elitism Aristocracy Meritocracy Noblesse oblige Ethical order Familialism Family values Fundamentalism Gender roles Complementarianism Historism Honour Imperialism Law and order Loyalty Maternalism Monarchism Royalism Moral absolutism Natalism Nationalism Natural law Norms Conventions Customs Mores Ordered liberty Organicism Organised religion Orthodoxy Patriotism  Property rights Public morality Rule of law Social hierarchy Social institutions Social order Sovereignty State religion Stewardship Subsidiarity Tradition
Intellectuals Johnson Hume Burke More Maistre Bonald Chateaubriand Czartoryski Coleridge Karamzin Savigny Carlyle Ranke Newman Tocqueville Dostoevsky Taine Le Bon Belloc Iorga Chesterton Spengler Jabotinsky Savarkar Schmitt Eliot Mannheim Jünger Evola Strauss Röpke Freyre Voegelin Oakeshott Burnham Lefebvre Qutb Kuehnelt-Leddihn Gómez Dávila Kirk Solzhenitsyn Koselleck Mishima Buckley Sowell Mansfield Scruton Peterson
Politicians Adams Pitt Canning Metternich Disraeli Bismarck Salisbury Dmowski Mannerheim Baldwin Maurras Horthy Metaxas Churchill Adenauer De Gasperi Chiang Salazar De Gaulle Dollfuss Franco Khomeini Reagan Powell Pinochet Marcos Park Smith Suharto Lee Zia Vajpayee Thatcher Kohl Fujimori Trump Kaczyński Netanyahu Modi Putin Bolsonaro Orbán Meloni
Religion Christian right Clericalism Confucianism Hindutva Islamism Jewish conservatism Religious Zionism Traditionalist Catholicism Integralism Ultramontanism Traditionalist School Perennialism
Personal variants Berlusconism Bukelism Cameronism Chiangism Erdoğanism Francoism Fujimorism Gaullism Janismo Khomeinism Maurrassisme Mellismo Metaxism Powellism Pinochetism Putinism Reaganism Sarkozysm Thatcherism Trumpism Ziaism
National variants Australia Austria Bangladesh Belgium Belize Brazil Canada Chile China Hong Kong Taiwan Colombia Cuba Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Guatemala Hungary Iceland India Israel Italy Japan Luxembourg Malaysia Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Norway Pakistan Panama Peru Poland Russia Serbia Singapore Sweden Switzerland South Korea Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom United States
Related ideologies Agrarianism Christian democracy Clerical fascism Communitarianism Conservative liberalism Corporatism Ordoliberalism
Related topics Anti-communism White Terror Anti-gender movement Anti-immigration Black conservatism United States Catholic social teaching Conservative feminism Conservative wave Hispanic conservatism United States LGBT conservatism Nativism Patriarchy Right realism Right-wing politics Authoritarianism Far New Radical Small-c conservative Toryism
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Conservatism in New Zealand, though related to its counterparts in other Western countries, developed uniquely over time. Advocates followed a political ideology that emphasised the preservation of traditional European beliefs, institutions and practices.