Liberal Forum Liberales Forum | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Leader | Angelika Mlinar |
| Founded | 4 February 1993 |
| Dissolved | 25 January 2014 |
| Split from | Freedom Party of Austria |
| Merged into | NEOS |
| Headquarters | Dürergasse 6/10 A-1060 Vienna |
| Ideology | Liberalism |
| Political position | Centre |
| European affiliation | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party |
| International affiliation | Liberal International |
| Colours | Yellow |
| Website | |
| liberale | |
The Liberal Forum (German: Liberales Forum, LiF) was a centrist,[1][2][3] liberal[4][5][6][7] political party in Austria. The party was active from February 1993 to January 2014, when the party merged into NEOS – The New Austria.[8]
A member of the Liberal International and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party, it was founded as a classical liberal split from the FPÖ due to its right-wing populist stances[9] and was placed on the libertarian/post-materialist on a two-axis political spectrum, alongside The Greens – The Green Alternative, in a 2000 comparative analysis among Austrian political parties.[10]
- ^ Wodak, Ruth; Pelinka, Anton (2002). The Haider Phenomenon in Austria. New York: Transaction Publishers. p. xviii. ISBN 978-0-7658-0883-7.
- ^ Hloušek, Vít (2006). "The limited Role of Electoral Game Rules: the Austrian Party System in "Post-Rokkanian" Settings" (PDF). Politics in Central Europe. 2 (1): 35. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2010.
- ^ Missiroli, Antonio (2006). "The New Kids on the EU Block: Austria, Finland and Sweden". The International Spectator. 30 (4): 13–29. doi:10.1080/03932729508458099.
- ^ Edgar Grande; Martin Dolezal; Marc Helbling; Dominic Höglinger (31 July 2012). Political Conflict in Western Europe. Cambridge University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-107-02438-0. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
- ^ Ruth Wodak; Anton Pelinka (2002). The Haider Phenomenon in Austria. Transaction Publishers. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-4128-2493-4. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
- ^ Cas Mudde (2002). The Ideology of the Extreme Right. Manchester University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-7190-6446-3. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
- ^ Terri E. Givens (10 October 2005). Voting Radical Right in Western Europe. Cambridge University Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-139-44670-9. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
- ^ "NEOS offiziell mit LIF fusioniert", Kleine Zeitung, 25 January 2014, archived from the original on 1 February 2014
- ^ John Sandford (3 April 2013). Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture. Routledge. p. 373. ISBN 978-1-136-81603-1.
- ^ Plasser, Fritz; Ulram, Peter A. (2000). "The Changing Austrian Voter" (PDF). Demokratiezentrum Wien. p. 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
Flanagan goes further and adds a third conflict axis to the two-dimensional conflict pattern of advanced industrial societies, namely the cleavage between a libertarian New Left and an authoritarian New Right, which is stirred up by polarising controversial issues such as immigration or the integration of immigrants.