Problemas sociales y conservadurismo político durante el siglo XIX

Abstract

This article deals in general terms with the politics of the Spanish liberal conservatism of the nineteenth century front of social problems of the liberal society. The aim is arguing about a commonplace deeply rooted in a part of the recent Spanish historiography and in the present-day public opinion, as it is the historical social vocation of conservatives. This opinion is partly based on the supposed sceptical assumption by nineteenth-century conservatives of liberal socioeconomic principles and on the adoption by the Conservative Party of the Restoration of the public interventionism in social matters and of social reformism from 1890 onwards. Nevertheless, for the whole nineteenth century and the beginnings of the next, they kept attached to a vision built over individualist and absenteeist principles that were slightly corrected by very restricted public actions, the main of which it was a very traditional shaped and inefficient beneficence.