User:Dbachmann/Parliamentary nationalism
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Parliaments listed by the fraction of nationalist parties
- >27% India (2004) BJP 22.16% Nationalist Trinamool Congress 2.07%, Shiv Sena 1.81%, Nationalist Congress Party 1.80% + others
- 22.1% Turkey (2007) Nationalist Movement Party 14.3%, Motherland Party (Turkey) 3.7%, Young Party 3.5%, Great Union Party 0.6% (not counting Republican People's Party (Turkey) 11.9%)
- 12.7% Italy (2006) National Alliance (Italy) 11.5%, Social Alternative 1.2%
- 12.3% Russia (2003) Rodina/Fair Russia 9.2% + 1.9% + 1.2%
- 9.5% Poland (2005) League of Polish Families 8.0%, Patriotic Movement 1.1%, Polish National Party 0.3%, National Rebirth of Poland 0.1%
- 8.2% Spain (2004) Convergence and Unity 3.3%, Basque Nationalist Party 1.6%, Canarian Coalition 0.9%, Galician Nationalist Bloc 0.8%,Andalucista Party 0.7%, Aragonese Council 0.4%, Basque Solidarity 0.3%, Navarra Yes 0.2%
- 5.5% France (2007), National Front (France) 4.29%, Movement for France 1.2%
- 3.5% UK (2005), SNP 1.5%, BNP 0.7%, Sinn Féin 0.6%, Plaid Cymru 0.6%
- 3.0% Sweden (2006) Sweden Democrats 2.93%, National Democrats (Sweden) 0.06%
- 2.3% Greece (2004) Popular Orthodox Rally 2.2%, Hellenic Front 0.1%
- 1.6% Germany (2005), NPD
- 1.0% Switzerland (2003), SD
some countries (like Iceland) have no separately organized nationalist parties. In these cases, there will be a certain percentage of nationalists in the conservative-right parties. Nationalism is also hidden in rigid two-party systems like that of the USA (see also Nationalism in the United States) There will probably always be a residual percentage of nationalists of 2-3% that doesn't show in elections, because movements of such small size are not strong enough to show up in election results, or choose to team up with larger groups.
10% parliamentary nationalism is precarious for a civilised democracy. At 15-20%, you start to have angry lynch mobs in the streets. Somewhere around 35-40%, things spiral down into civil war (or war). Your basic 2-3% nationalists are probably normal (and even healthy) for any society. This may correspond to a basic fraction of about 10% morons in any human population (of which maybe a third each will be apolitically moronic, far left, or far right).