(n.) The disposition to preserve what is established\; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.

Conservatism Liberalism Machtpolitik Realpolitik Republicanism Tammany Hall Toryism Whiggery Whiggism bias bossism career politics clannishness clanship cliqueyness cliquishness cliquism confrontation politics consensus politics denominationalism discrimination eclecticism economics in action empirical politics esprit de corps ethnocentricity exclusiveness faction factionalism favoritism inclination inequality interest involvement kid-glove politics leaning machine politics nepotism one-sidedness parti pris partiality partisan politics partisanry partisanship party spirit peanut politics petty politics politics polity pork-barrel politics power politics practical politics preference preferential treatment pressure-group politics reform politics schismatism sectarianism sectarism sectionalism silk-stocking politics syncretism undetachment undispassionateness unneutrality ward politics