 | Catholic Power in the Netherlands Subjects: Katholieke Volkspartij -- History; Catholics -- Netherlands -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century; Christianity and politics -- History -- 20th century; Netherlands -- Politics and government -- 1945–; Dutch Catholics long constituted by far the most cohesive political subculture in Western Europe. For nearly half a century virtually all Catholics in the Netherlands supported a single political party - the Catholic party - resisting appeals from both the left and the right. Then in the mid-1960s their allegiance began to crumble; by 1972 only a small minority of Dutch Catholics still voted for the party and a few years later it had ceased to exist. |
