Abstract
The Netherlands is one of the few western European countries where a left party has not recently entered national government.1 This last happened when the small Christian-environmentalist Political Party of the Radicals (PPR) played a junior role in a progressive coalition in the 1970s. The absence of left parties from government is not for want of trying. Indeed, two left parties – GroenLinks (GL) and the Socialistische Partij (SP) – have made hard choices with the aim of doing this, sacrificing policy commitments in pursuit of electoral and office goals, and the prospect of these parties entering government is no longer a flight of fancy. GroenLinks and the SP have increasing experience of local government and are now taken seriously in discussions on prospective coalitions. However, electoral successes such as that by the SP in 2006, when its representation in the Tweede Kamer grew from nine to 25 seats, have not, as yet, brought government participation with them.
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