What is Christian Democracy?

What is Christian Democracy?

Author: Carlo Invernizzi Accetti

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-10-03

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1108386156

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Christian 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.


The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe

The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe

Author: Stathis N. Kalyvas

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780801483202

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Kalyvas 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.


The Origins of Christian Democracy

The Origins of Christian Democracy

Author: Maria Mitchell

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2012-10-04

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0472118412

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A pioneering exploration of the origins of German Christian Democracy in the context of 19th- and 20th-century politics and religion


Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism

Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism

Author: Michael Gehler

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2019-11-20

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 9462702160

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Debates on the role of Christian Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe too often remain strongly tied to national historiographies. With the edited collection the contributing authors aim to reconstruct Christian Democracy’s role in the fall of Communism from a bird's-eye perspective by covering the entire region and by taking “third-way” options in the broader political imaginary of late-Cold War Europe into account. The book’s twelve chapters present the most recent insights on this topic and connect scholarship on the Iron Curtain’s collapse with scholarship on political Catholicism. Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism offers the reader a two-fold perspective. The first approach examines the efforts undertaken by Western European actors who wanted to foster or support Christian Democratic initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe. The second approach is devoted to the (re-)emergence of homegrown Christian Democratic formations in the 1980s and 1990s. One of the volume’s seminal contributions lies in its documentation of the decisive role that Christian Democracy played in supporting the political and anti-political forces that engineered the collapse of Communism from within between 1989 and 1991.


Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union

Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union

Author: Wolfram Kaiser

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-03-03

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780521173971

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Major 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.


Christian Democracy in Latin America

Christian Democracy in Latin America

Author: Scott Mainwaring

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780804745987

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Christian 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 diversity—and 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.


Christian Democracy in France (Routledge Revivals)

Christian Democracy in France (Routledge Revivals)

Author: R. E. M. Irving

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-03-23

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 1136955399

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Christian 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.


Social Capitalism

Social Capitalism

Author: Kees van Kersbergen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1134818343

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First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine

Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine

Author: George E. Demacopoulos

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0823274217

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Winner of the 2017 Alpha Sigma Nu Award The collapse of communism in eastern Europe has forced traditionally Eastern Orthodox countries to consider the relationship between Christianity and liberal democracy. Contributors examine the influence of Constantinianism in both the post-communist Orthodox world and in Western political theology. Constructive theological essays feature Catholic and Protestant theologians reflecting on the relationship between Christianity and democracy, as well as Orthodox theologians reflecting on their tradition’s relationship to liberal democracy. The essays explore prospects of a distinctively Christian politics in a post-communist, post-Constantinian age.


Christianity And Democracy In Global Context

Christianity And Democracy In Global Context

Author: John Witte

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-08

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0429720076

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In the past, Christianity has had both positive and negative influences on democracy. Christian churches have served as benevolent agents of welfare and catalysts of political reform. But they have also served as belligerent allies of repression and censors of human rights. Christian theology has helped to cultivate democratic ideas of equality, li