...In politics, right-wing, rightist and the Right generally imply support for preserving traditional social orders with hierarchal or private control of wealth.Left and right: the significance of a political distinction, Norberto Bobbio and Allan Cameron, pg. 37, University of Chicago Press, 1997.Seymour Martin Lipset, cited in Fuchs, D., and Klingemann, H. 1990. The left-right schema. Pp.203–34 in Continuities in Political Action: A Longitudinal Study of Political Orientations in Three Western Democracies, ed.M.Jennings et al. Berlin:de GruyterLukes, Steven. 'Epilogue: The Grand Dichotomy of the Twentieth Century': concluding chapter to T. Ball and R. Bellamy (eds.), The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought. Pp.610–612Clark, William. Capitalism, not Globalism. University of Michigan Press, 2003. ISBN 0472112937, 9780472112937 The term Right was coined during the French Revolution, referring to seating arrangements in parliament; those who sat on the right supported preserving the institutions of the Ancien Régime (the monarchy, the aristocracy and the established church).The Architecture of Parliaments: Legislative Houses and Political Culture Charles T. Goodsell British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Jul., 1988), pp. 287–302Gerhard Linski, Current Issues and Research in Macrosociology, Brill Archive, 1984, pg; 59Barry Clark, Political Economy: A Comparative Approach, Praeger Paperback, 1998, pgs; 33–34. The concept of a distinct political Right developed after the second restoration of the French monarchy in 1815 with the Ultra-royalists. Today the term the Right is primarily used to refer to political groups that have a historical connection with the traditional Right, including conservatives, reactionaries, monarchists, aristocrats and theocrats. But in modern times, the Right has also encompassed views supporting capitalism, free markets and some forms of nationalism. Read full entry

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