Nordic agrarian parties

The Nordic agrarian parties,^[1] also referred to as Scandinavian agrarian parties^[2]^[3] or agrarian liberal parties,^[4]^[5] are agrarian political parties that belong to a political tradition particular to the Nordic countries. Positioning themselves in the centre of the political spectrum, but fulfilling roles distinctive to Nordic countries, they remain hard to classify by conventional political ideology.

These parties are non-Socialist and typically combine a commitment to small businesses, rural issues and political decentralisation, and, at times, scepticism towards the European Union. The parties have divergent views on the free market and environmentalism. Internationally, they are most commonly aligned to the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and the Liberal International.

Historically farmers' parties, a declining farmer population after the Second World War made them broaden their scope to other issues and sections of society. At this time three of them renamed themselves to Centre Party, with the Finnish Centre Party being the last to do so, in 1965.^[6] In modern period, the main agrarian parties are the Centre Party in Sweden, Venstre in Denmark, Centre Party in Finland, Centre Party in Norway and Progressive Party in Iceland.

^ Arter, David (2001). From Farmyard to City Square? The Electoral Adaptation of the Nordic Agrarian Parties (1 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9781138258297.
^ Cite error: The named reference IESP2006 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Arter, David (1999). Scandinavian Politics Today. Manchester University Press. p. 79. ISBN 9780719051333.
^ Simon Hix; Christopher Lord (1997). Political Parties in the European Union. St Martin's Press. p. 33.
^ Gary Marks; Carole Wilson (1999). Thomas Banchoff; Mitchell P. Smith (eds.). National parties and the contestation of Europe. Routledge. p. 124. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^ Arter (1999), p. 78

[1] Arter, David (2001). From Farmyard to City Square? The Electoral Adaptation of the Nordic Agrarian Parties (1 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9781138258297.

[IESP2006-2] Cite error: The named reference IESP2006 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[3] Arter, David (1999). Scandinavian Politics Today. Manchester University Press. p. 79. ISBN 9780719051333.

[4] Simon Hix; Christopher Lord (1997). Political Parties in the European Union. St Martin's Press. p. 33.

[5] Gary Marks; Carole Wilson (1999). Thomas Banchoff; Mitchell P. Smith (eds.). National parties and the contestation of Europe. Routledge. p. 124. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

[6] Arter (1999), p. 78

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