A report on Centrism
Political outlook or position that involves acceptance and/or support of a balance of social equality and a degree of social hierarchy, while opposing political changes which would result in a significant shift of society strongly to either the left or the right.
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Social liberalism
11 linksPolitical philosophy and variety of liberalism that endorses a social market economy and the expansion of civil and political rights.
Political philosophy and variety of liberalism that endorses a social market economy and the expansion of civil and political rights.
Social liberal ideas and parties tend to be considered centrist, or centre-left.
Centre-left politics
8 linksCentre-left politics lean to the left-wing on the left–right political spectrum, but are closer to the centre than other left-wing politics.
Big tent
9 linksUsed in reference to a political party's policy of permitting or encouraging a broad spectrum of views among its members.
Used in reference to a political party's policy of permitting or encouraging a broad spectrum of views among its members.
It is composed of Republican Proposal (right), Civic Coalition ARI (centre-right) and Radical Civic Union (centre).
Third Way
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The Third Way is a political position akin to centrism that attempts to reconcile right-wing and left-wing politics by advocating a varying synthesis of centre-right economic policies with centre-left social policies.
Centre-right politics
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Centre-right politics lean to the right of the political spectrum, but are closer to the centre.
Liberal Party of Canada
5 linksLongest-serving and oldest active federal political party in Canada.
Longest-serving and oldest active federal political party in Canada.
The party espouses the principles of liberalism, and generally sits at the centre to centre-left of the Canadian political spectrum, with their rival, the Conservative Party, positioned to their right and the New Democratic Party, who at times aligned itself with the Liberals during minority governments, positioned to their left.
Conservatism
7 linksCultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional social institutions and practices.
Cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional social institutions and practices.
By the end of the 1960s, the political debate in Quebec centered around the question of independence, opposing the social democratic and sovereignist Parti Québécois and the centrist and federalist Quebec Liberal Party, therefore marginalizing the conservative movement.
Christian democracy
9 linksPolitical ideology that emerged in 19th-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching, as well as neo-Calvinism.
Political ideology that emerged in 19th-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching, as well as neo-Calvinism.
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Labour Party (UK)
8 linksPolitical party in the United Kingdom that has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists.
Political party in the United Kingdom that has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists.
In the 1990s, Tony Blair took Labour to the centre as part of his New Labour project which governed under Blair and then Gordon Brown from 1997 to 2010.
Left–right political spectrum
4 linksSystem of classifying political positions characteristic of left-right politics, ideologies and parties with emphasis placed issues of social equality and social hierarchy.
System of classifying political positions characteristic of left-right politics, ideologies and parties with emphasis placed issues of social equality and social hierarchy.
In addition to positions on the left and on the right, there are centrists or moderates who are not strongly aligned with either end of the spectrum.