The article aims to sketch out the main features of the political culture of the Radical Party (PR). This political culture is paradigmatic of a much broader phenomenon that has affected the politics of Western democracies since the 1970s: the critique of traditional parties in the name of a party model formed by spontaneous groupings of society; the extreme emphasis placed on individual choices in political action, and the programmatic tracing of the latter back to the former; and the call for a less ‘mediated’ relationship between citizens and institutions. Yet, this culture contained certain ingredients that would distance it from the populist forms of the twenty-first century. After grafting anti-authoritarianism onto its liberal matrix the PR identified the promotion of civil rights as the goal and battle for the transformation of the relationship between politics and the citizen. This transformation emphasised the sphere of individual freedom and the liberty to participate in community decisions, and thus implied a transformation of the ways and means of doing politics. In the late 1970s, the PR deepened its critique of parties and partitocracy and, at the same time, emphasised a supranational view of politics, eventually becoming a ‘transnational transparty’ party in 1989.

本文旨在勾勒出激进党 （PR） 政治文化的主要特征。这种政治文化是自 1970 年代以来影响西方民主国家政治的更广泛现象的典范：以社会自发团体形成的政党模式的名义对传统政党的批评;极度强调政治行动中的个人选择，以及将后者程序性地追溯到前者;以及呼吁在公民和机构之间建立较少“中介化”的关系。然而，这种文化包含某些因素，使其与 21 世纪的民粹主义形式保持距离。在将反威权主义嫁接到其自由主义矩阵上后，PR 将促进民权确定为改变政治与公民之间关系的目标和斗争。这种转变强调了个人自由和参与社区决策的自由，因此意味着政治方式和手段的转变。在 1970 年代后期，PR 加深了对政党和党派统治的批评，同时强调超国家政治观，最终在 1989 年成为“跨国跨党派”政党。