Editing Party of Democratic Action (section)

==Ideology==
The Party of Democratic Action is the primary stronghold for right-orientated [[Bosniaks]], especially for [[Bosniak nationalism|nationalists]], and [[Conservatism|conservatives]], and thus they have been described as [[National conservatism|national-conservative]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 November 2018 |title=A State of Division |url=https://jacobinmag.com/2018/11/bosnia-herzegovina-elections-nationalism |work=Jacobin}}</ref> The party has been also described as [[Secularism|secularist]] by some researchers.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=vfnPAQAAQBAJ&dq=sda+secular&pg=PA35 "Innocence and Victimhood: Gender, Nation, and Women’s Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina", Elizabeth Helms, University of Wisconsin Press]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=e93Pj_HB5fQC&dq=sda+bosnia+secular&pg=PA14 "Islam and Bosnia: Conflict Resolution and Foreign Policy in Multi-ethnic States"], edited by [[Maya Shatzmiller]], McGill-Queen's University Press</ref> [[Islamism|Islamist]] and [[Pan-Islamism|Pan-Islamist]] ideologies exist in the party but tends to represent itself mainly among the elite apparatus of the party.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=auA3DwAAQBAJ&dq=sda+Pan-Islamism&pg=PA105 Xavier Bougarel, "Islam and Nationhood in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Surviving Empires", Bloomsbury]</ref><ref name="Xavier2">[https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00220516/document Xavier Bougarel. "Bosnian Islam since 1990: Cultural Identity or Political Ideology?", Convention annuelle de l’Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), p. 3]</ref>  The party supports the centralization of the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina.<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 October 2019 |title=Bosnia-Herzegovina political briefing: BIH's Troyka Agreement – ambitious or premature plan to exit from 10 months-long government crisis? – China-CEE Institute |url=https://china-cee.eu/2019/10/11/bosnia-herzegovina-political-briefing-bihs-troyka-agreement-ambitious-or-premature-plan-to-exit-from-10-months-long-government-crisis/}}</ref> On foreign stances they also tend to be [[Atlanticism|atlanticist]] and supportive of the accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to [[NATO]] and the [[European Union]].<ref name="Xavier2" /><ref name="partypolitics2">[https://books.google.com/books?id=mfMiAQAAQBAJ&dq=sda+western+democracy&pg=PA92 "Party Politics in the Western Balkans" edited by Vera Stojarová, Peter Emerson]</ref>