Anti-Revolutionary Party

Anti-Revolutionary Party

Anti-Revolutionaire Partij
Anti-Revolutionary Party Anti-Revolutionaire Partij
Abbreviation	ARP
Founder	Abraham Kuyper
Founded	3 April 1879
Dissolved	27 September 1980
Merged into	Christian Democratic Appeal
Headquarters	Kuyperhuis ; Dr. Kuyperstraat 3 ; The Hague
Youth wing	Anti-Revolutionary Youth Study Clubs
Think tank	Dr. A. Kuyper-stichting
Ideology	Christian democracy
Political position	Centre-right
Religion	Reformed Churches in the Netherlands ; Dutch Reformed Church
European affiliation	European Union of Christian Democrats
European Parliament group	Christian Democratic Group
Colours	Blue and purple
	Politics of Netherlands; Political parties; Elections;

The Anti-Revolutionary Party (Dutch: Anti-Revolutionaire Partij, ARP) was a Protestant conservative and Christian democratic^[5] political party in the Netherlands. The party was founded in 1879 by Abraham Kuyper, a neo-Calvinist theologian and minister. In 1980 the party merged with the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and the Christian Historical Union (CHU) to form the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).

^ "Anti-Revolutionaire Jongerenstudieclubs (ARJOS)". Parlement.com (in Dutch). Retrieved 30 December 2023.
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^ Score 4.0/10 in 2003 Chapel Hill expert survey, see Hooghe et al. (2003) Chapel Hill Survey
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