... that the core commitments of Christian democracy in Europe can be summarized as a combined emphasis on market society, ‘personalism’ (the doctrine that places the universal value of the human person at its centre), autonomy from any formal church affiliation and, crucially to the EU, ‘subsidiarity’. ⁶...

...Eva-Maria Euchner; Caroline Preidel Many scholars have discussed the crisis of Christian Democracy in modern times ( Duncan, 2006 ). Christian Democratic parties lost electoral support in many European countries due to strong secularisation trends and a decreasing religious voter base...

... class middle class rural populations individualism pillarization royal question Belgium parliamentary democracy Flanders Christian democracy Cold War Western Europe This book is intended as an investigation of a problem: why did the manifold political and social crises which Belgium...

...This chapter examines liberal Catholicism and its role on the life of Peter Steinfels. It argues that liberal Catholicism is, in fact, a controverted and approximate label. Its history overlaps with that of Christian Democracy, social Catholicism, and modernism. The chapter notes that liberal...

... period, from the late-1960s wave of anti-authoritarian protests in Italian universities and factories to the mid-1970s plans for an alliance between Christian Democrats and Communists. austerity Christian Democracy Cold War Corona Achille Italian film industry Italian genre cinema Italian Socialist...

... wars political Catholicism Christian democracy Vatican secularism freethinkers science In the second half of the nineteenth century, Europe experienced intense antagonism between secular and ecclesiastical forces. In Germany, these conflicts peaked with the Kulturkampf...

...This chapter looks into the pluralist-democratic tradition of monism that has emerged in Catholicism. It traces the development of this Christian Democracy by briefly exploring the thought of three twentieth-century Catholic thinkers: Luigi Sturzo, Jacques Maritain, and Pope Pius XII...

... Party PRC Prodi Romano Senate technical governments party systems Christian Democracy Five Star Movement elections Parties and party systems are foundational to democratic politics. This conventional wisdom has particular resonance in post-World War II Italy. Parties have so thoroughly...

... Enrico Berlinguer Chile Christian Democracy The historic compromise (compromesso storico) was, strictly speaking, simply the strategy of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) through most of the 1970s. This strategy failed. Yet it deserves attention because of its influence...

...Silvio Berlusconi and Romano Prodi were the two main leaders of left and right in Italy in the Italian Second Republic. Berlusconi reinvented the Italian right after the downfall of Christian Democracy and the Socialist Party in the corruption scandals known as tangentopoli. Romano...

...This chapter introduces the focus of the book: the development of Europe's three big ideas which have shaped approaches to social problems and social policy since the industrial revolution, namely, liberalism, social democracy, and Christian democracy rooted in Catholic conservatism. It claims...

... prominent Catholic theologian, and political philosopher prior to the Second World War and during its aftermath. The chapter also explores how political champions of Christian democracy and of what would become the European Union, like Konrad Adenauer, combined Catholic ideas with liberal economics...

...This chapter explores the evolution and impact of Christian democracy in twentieth-century France, focusing on two groups directly involved in electoral politics: the Ligue de la Jeune république (JR), a Centre-Left party headed by Marc Sangnier of Sillon fame...

... Rougemont Denis de Valjavec Fritz Virtue virtuous Christian Democracy Euroscepticism Eurosceptic Family concept Prosperity Theodicy Hebrews ancient Patriotism Radicalism Cosmopolitanism empire colonialism liberalism socialism 1848 post-war Christian democracy The making of counter...

... Christendom Christian democracy Christian humanism communitarianism individualism integral humanism Maritain Jacques materialism Murray John Courtney totalitarianism establishment religious human dignity accomodationism autonomy emancipation natural law Nostra Aetate Vatican II Second Vatican...

... Kiesinger Kurt Georg Working class Second World War constitutions fascism communism Cold War people’s parties Social democracy Christian democracy On Easter Sunday 1945, Soviet troops entered the Austrian village of Gloggnitz, halfway between Graz and Vienna. Just a few hours earlier, the few final...

.... Programmatische Entwicklung der CDU 1950 1973 (Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1981), 30 1, who emphasized the tendency of people s parties to go beyond representation of single groups and situated them as heirs of the integration parties of the Interwar era. C. Invernizi Accetti, What Is Christian Democracy...

...Italy’s Christian Democracy: The Catholic Encounter with Political Modernity. Rosario Forlenza and Bjørn Thomassen, Oxford University Press. © Rosario Forlenza and Bjørn Thomassen 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198859864.003.0006 This chapter deals with the Catholic experiences...

...Italy’s Christian Democracy: The Catholic Encounter with Political Modernity. Rosario Forlenza and Bjørn Thomassen, Oxford University Press. © Rosario Forlenza and Bjørn Thomassen 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198859864.003.0011 At the beginning of the 1990s, the Italian political...

..., identifying (secular) elites or migrant groups as dangerous Others (Marzouki et al. 2016). At the global level, the overshadowing focus during the last decades has been on Islam and its relationship with modernity and democratic political arrangements Italy s Christian Democracy: The Catholic Encounter...