Abstract
Alcide de Gasperi — the leader of the Italian Democrazia Cristiana (DC) in the immediate postwar period, and Prime Minister from 1945 to 1953 — once defined his party as ‘a party of the centre moving towards the left’. Today, just as then, Italian Christian Democrats do not like being called ‘conservatives’, a term with negative connotations in Italian political language. Nevertheless, the DC has represented and still represents the centre-right pole in the Italian party system vis-à-vis the two other large parties, the Socialist party (PSI) and the Communist party (PCI). During 35 years of post-war elections the DC has frequently exchanged voters with the parties of the right and has increased electoral support only in this direction, while regularly losing ground to the left.KeywordsConservative PoliticsAgrarian ReformConservative PartyLarge PartyPower ApparatusThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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