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Author: Roberto Papini
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780847683000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text examines the history, organisation and continuing worldwide influence of the International Christian Democratic movement, which currently has nearly 70 parties on five continents. It demonstrates how a religious political movement has acquired such wide political influence.
Author: Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-10-03
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1108386156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristian Democratic actors and thinkers have been at the forefront of many of the twentieth century's key political battles - from the construction of the international human rights regime, through the process of European integration and the creation of postwar welfare regimes, to Latin American development policies during the Cold War. Yet their core ideas remain largely unknown, especially in the English-speaking world. Combining conceptual and historical approaches, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti traces the development of this ideology in the thought and writings of some of its key intellectual and political exponents, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. In so doing he sheds light on a number of important contemporary issues, from the question of the appropriate place of religion in presumptively 'secular' liberal-democratic regimes, to the normative resources available for building a political response to the recent rise of far-right populism.
Author: Stathis N. Kalyvas
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780801483202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKalyvas also lays a foundation for a theory of the Christian Democratic phenomenon which would specify the conditions under which confessional parties succeed and would determine the impact of such parties, and the way they are formed, on politics and society.
Author: Scott Mainwaring
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780804745987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristian Democracy swept across parts of Latin America, gaining influence in Venezuela in the 1940s, Chile in the 1950s, El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1960s, and Costa Rica and Mexico in the 1980s. This book offers an overview of Christian Democracy in the region underscoring its remarkable diversityand examines the Christian Democratic organizations of Chile and Mexico, which are still major parties today. The concluding section analyzes the demise of formerly significant Christian Democratic parties in El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, and Venezuela. Christian Democracy in Latin America provides the definitive stufy of the nature, rise, and decline of Christian Democracy in Latin America. The book enriches the broader theoretical literature on political parties by highlighting the distinctive strategic dilemmas parties face, and the distinctive objectives they pursue, in contexts of fragile democracy or of authoritarian regimes.
Author: R. E. M. Irving
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-03-23
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 1136955399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristian Democracy, which may briefly be defined as organised political action by Catholic democrats, has been a major political force in Western Europe since the Second World War, not least in France. The aim of this book, first published in 1973, is to trace the Development of Christian Democracy in France from its origins in the 1830s to the present day, discussing its theories and its importance in French history and politics, with particular (but by no means exclusive) reference to the Fourth Republic (1946-58) when the MRP was one of the key centre parties. Dr Irving provides a thorough analysis of MRP, its economic, foreign and colonial policies, and gives reasons for the relative decline of French Christian Democracy in the 1960s. This French movement has been little understood in Britain and a throrough history has been badly needed. This study will be valuable to all those who, in the context of a United Europe, wish to understand the political forces at work at its conception. It will be valuable especially to students of modern history and politics.
Author: Wolfram Kaiser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-03
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780521173971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMajor study of the role of European Christian democratic parties in the making of the European Union. It radically re-conceptualises European integration in long-term historical perspective as the outcome of partisan competition of political ideologies and parties and their guiding ideas for the future of Europe. Wolfram Kaiser takes a comparative approach to political Catholicism in the nineteenth century, Catholic parties in interwar Europe and Christian democratic parties in postwar Europe and studies these parties' cross-border contacts and co-ordination of policy-making. He shows how well networked party elites ensured that the origins of European Union were predominately Christian democratic, with considerable repercussions for the present-day EU. The elites succeeded by intensifying their cross-border communication and coordinating their political tactics and policy making in government. This is a major contribution to the new transnational history of Europe and the history of European integration.
Author: Lavinia Stan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-08-29
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 0199714126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu examine the relationship between religion and politics in ten former communist Eastern European countries. Contrary to widespread theories of increasing secularization, Stan and Turcescu argue that in most of these countries, the populations have shown themselves to remain religious even as they embrace modernization and democratization. Church-state relations in the new EU member states can be seen in political representation for church leaders, governmental subsidies, registration of religions by the state, and religious instruction in public schools. Stan and Turcescu outline three major models: the Czech church-state separation model, in which religion is private and the government secular; the pluralist model of Hungary, Bulgaria and Latvia, which views society as a group of complementary but autonomous spheres - for example, education, the family, and religion - each of which is worthy of recognition and support from the state; and the dominant religion model that exists in Poland, Romania, Estonia, and Lithuania, in which the government maintains informal ties to the religious majority. Church, State, and Democracy in Expanding Europe offers critical tools for understanding church-state relations in an increasingly modern and democratic Eastern Europe.
Author: Michael Gehler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1135753857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first to reveal the roles of the Christian Democratic parties in postwar Europe, systematically and from a pan-European perspective.
Author: Noam Lupu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-01-15
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 110707360X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParty Brands in Crisis offers a new way of thinking about how the behavior of political parties affects voters' attachments.
Author: Daniela Donno
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-09-19
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0199991294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElectoral misconduct is widespread, but only some countries are punished by international actors for violating democratic norms. Using an original dataset and country case studies, this book explains variation in international norm enforcement.
