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Bitterly opposed to equality, whether equality before the law or equality of opportunity, conservatives feared mass democracy. The ‘idea of the modern state’, that all citizens are equal before a sovereign, implied a fundamental human equality which they regarded as anathema. The old right were therefore against the state, preferring a mythical vision of medieval feudalism, when society was believed to be an organic whole, unified despite its separate and unequal ‘estates’.
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In principle you do not have to adopt new-right values in order to use public choice patterns of argument. (...) However, a majority of public choice writers in fact espouse political values and policies normally associated with conservatism.
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Public choice theory studies collective, social or non-market decision making. The subject matter of public choice thus includes many aspects of political science, the study of the state, constitutions, collective action, voting procedures, party behavior, bureaucratic behavior, and manipulative behavior. Applying the methods and techniques of neoclassical economics to the study of the subjects is what makes public choice so distinctive.
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For Hayek social justice is a myth, a search for the impossible. Unlike some public choice theorists, Hayek believes that not even the market rewards merit.
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New-right authors from the public choice and Austrian approaches frequently analyze the problems of liberal democracy in the same way, and prescribe the same remedies to improve matters, while differing sharply in their methods of analysis.
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