Right-wing politics

Right-wing politics encompasses political ideas and movements that generally favor tradition, social hierarchy, private property, or national identity. Its meanings vary across societies and historical periods.

Political spectrum: A model that arranges political positions along one or more dimensions of political disagreement. The left–right axis is the common framework used to identify right-wing positions.
Left-wing politics: Political ideas and movements that generally emphasize equality and reducing social or economic hierarchy. It is the principal pole against which right-wing politics is conventionally contrasted.
Christian democracy: A political tradition combining Christian social thought with democratic institutions and a mixed economy. It has formed influential center-right parties while supporting social protections and religiously informed values.
French Revolution: A period of political upheaval in France from 1789 that ended the monarchy and transformed European politics. The seating positions of revolutionary deputies helped give left and right their political meanings.
Authoritarianism: A political system or practice that concentrates power and restricts political pluralism and public accountability. Debates ask when right-wing appeals to order become authoritarian rule.
Conservatism: A political tradition that favors continuity, inherited institutions, and cautious change. It is a major current of right-wing politics, though not the whole of it.
Socialism: A family of political and economic ideas advocating social or public control over important productive resources. Socialist critiques of private ownership have often opposed right-wing economic commitments.
National conservatism: A conservative current that emphasizes national sovereignty, cultural continuity, and the nation-state. It joins traditionalist politics to a strong account of national identity.
National Assembly (French Revolution): The representative body formed in France in 1789 that challenged royal authority and helped launch the Revolution. Its deputies’ seating arrangements gave the left–right distinction an early institutional setting.
Populism: A political approach that presents society as divided between a virtuous people and a corrupt elite. Right-wing populism raises questions about how popular sovereignty relates to pluralism and minority rights.

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