Parties are associated with ideologies and supported by people who share their ideologies.
> I think I represented the ideology of conservatism and liberalism correctly here, so call out the social sciences over that.
If you are saying that you there is a correct definition within the social sciences, can you cite an authoritative source for that?
In any case you were talking about "the world view people have" and I think your definition correlates very poorly with those of people one would normally describe as "liberal" or "conservative". I am not even sure which mindset you associate with the "monitor and control" mentality. I think you mean its a conservative mindset, but a lot of the people I know who most strongly oppose it are conservative or Conservative (as in members of the party that has the word in its name).
This might be a US vs UK difference, of course. These are not words that are really used very consistently within societies, let alone between them.
> so call out the social sciences over that.
Happy to do so if that is what they say!
> If you are saying that you there is a correct definition within the social sciences, can you cite an authoritative source for that?
You can start at Wikipedia, for example, which quotes Thomas Hobbes:
> the state of nature for humans was "poor, nasty, brutish, and short", requiring centralized authority with royal sovereignty to guarantee law and order.
And further:
> Conservatism has been called a "philosophy of human imperfection" by political scientist Noël O'Sullivan, reflecting among its adherents a negative view of human nature and pessimism of the potential to improve it through 'utopian' schemes.
I don’t mean to insinuate "conservatives are evil and want to spy on citizens", but merely that they are generally more inclined to believe people are inherently incapable of behaving well, so they need to be nudged towards the right thing. Really believing this makes it far more likely to view government monitoring as a plausible solution to the problem they see. And again, I’m saying this without implying any judgement.