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Conservatism may refer to:

In politics and political philosophy:

• Conservatism (its most usual meaning)—political philosophies that favor tradition. See also:
  • Conservatism in Canada
  • Conservatism in the United States
• Social conservatism—the view that government should play a role in encouraging or enforcing traditional values or behaviors.
• Paleoconservatism—an anti-communist and anti-authoritarian conservative movement in the U.S.
• Liberal conservatism—a variant of conservatism, combining conservative values and policies with liberal stances.
• National conservatism (Europe)—a variant of conservatism which concentrates more on national interests and traditional social/ethical views.
• Neoconservatism—a political philosophy that emerged in the U.S. from the liberalism of the 1960s. See also:
  • Neoconservatism in Japan
  • Neoconservatism in China

In epistemology:

• Epistemic conservatism—a view about the structure of reasons or justification for belief.

In environmentalism:

• Conservation ethic—a view in the environmentalist sphere that is sometimes called "conservatism."

Conservatism may also relate to Conservative and related terms:

In mathematics:

• Conservative vector field—a vector field which is the gradient of a scalar potential.
• Conservativity theorem—a mathematical proof of conservative extension.

In physics:

• Conservative force—a force whose work is path-independent.
• Conservation law—a system is one in which energy is conserved.

In politics:

• conservative political party or a member of such a party.

In statistics:

• Conservative statistical test—a hypothesis test that is unlikely to reject the null hypothesis when it is true.

In deductive logic:

• Conservative extension—a premise of deductive logic.

In religion:

• Conservative Christianity—groups or movements that give priority to traditional Christian beliefs and practices.
• Conservative Judaism—a stream of Judaism that arose out of intellectual currents in Germany in the mid-19th century and took institutional form in the United States in the early 1900s.
• Conservative Friends—members of a certain branch of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

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