CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY AND THE ORIGINS OF EUROPEAN UNION by Wolfram Kaiser ( 9780521173971 )

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CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY AND THE ORIGINS OF EUROPEAN UNION

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Wolfram Kaiser

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0521173973

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

7 January, 2011

Series:

New Studies in European History

Pages:

390

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This book considers the role of European Christian democratic parties in the making of the European Union.

Synopsis:

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.

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