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Up to the 1880s, political parties in the Habsburg Monarchy were really only informal groupings of parliamentary notables. There was virtually no constituency organization. The Liberals tended to represent the German-speaking urban middle class, whilst the Conservatives spoke for the nobility, the interests of agriculture and the non-German minorities. The main developments from the 1880s onwards were:
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© 1978 Chris Cook and John Paxton
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Cook, C., Paxton, J. (1978). Political Parties. In: European Political Facts 1848–1918. Palgrave Historical and Political Facts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02019-5_6
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