ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses views held by the four largest Dutch political parties: the Catholic People's Party, the labour party, the liberal party and the antirevolutionary party. In the Netherlands a distinction is made between a party's election program, its constitution, its general political program, its provincial program, and its municipal program. The chapter deals only with the election program of 1948 and 1963. The election programs reveal that the parties' views have become closer as regards nationalization and as regards a planned economy. The views of the four parties under discussion regarding social security have become much more similar over the past fifteen years. All political parties have been striving for more than fifteen years to reduce the inequality in private property. The views of the four parties under discussion may be concluded to have grown somewhat closer together in the last fifteen years as regards copartnership in industry.
