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Author : Mario Einaudi,François Goguel
Publisher : Archon
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1969-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015004245562
Author : Mario Einaudi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758118082
Author : Rosario Forlenza,Bjørn Thomassen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192603692
The first comprehensive study of Italian Christian Democracy in English, Italy's Christian Democracy unravels the encounter between Catholicism and democracy from pre-unification Italy in the eighteenth century to the near-present. Forlenza and Thomassen put the triumphant emergence of the Christian Democratic political party that ruled Italy from 1948 to 1994 into historical perspective. With a focus on critical moments of modern Italian history – the Enlightenment and French Revolution, the Risorgimento, World War I, the fascist period, World War II, the post-war Republic – Italy's Christian Democracy demonstrates the often-dramatic ways in which Catholic thinkers, from laymen to priests and bishops, sought to interpret and direct democratic thought and practice in line with Catholic ethics. The Christian Democracy was much more than reactionary politics – namely a sincere attempt to integrate a religious worldview into modern politics. Contrary to a purely secular reading, the authors demonstrate that the Catholic embrace of political modernity and democracy emerged as a historically significant alternative to both fascism and socialism, liberalism and conservativism, attempting to re-anchor democracy, justice, and freedom in a religiously argued ethos. Italy's Christian Democracy contributes to existing scholarship by stressing two interrelated aspects crucial for a better understanding of the role that Catholicism and Christian Democracy have played in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the political dimension of transcendence and spirituality and the transformative power of historical experiences and events. The narrative considers the religious and spiritual impulse behind Christian democratic thought, framing Christian Democracy as a distinct form of "political spirituality". Offering a novel historical narrative, Italy's Christian Democracy stresses the contemporary relevance of the nexus between Christianity and modern politics: the current spread of identity politics and the increasing use of religion in political and public discourse, recently appropriated by new populist parties and movements, in Italy and beyond.
Author : Rosario Forlenza,Bjø Thomassen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198859864
The first comprehensive study of Italian Christian Democracy in English, Italy's Christian Democracy unravels the encounter between Catholicism and democracy from pre-unification Italy in the eighteenth century to the near-present. Forlenza and Thomassen put the triumphant emergence of the Christian Democratic political party that ruled Italy from 1948 to 1994 into historical perspective. With a focus on critical moments of modern Italian history - the Enlightenment and French Revolution, the Risorgimento, World War I, the fascist period, World War II, the post-war Republic - Italy's Christian Democracy demonstrates the often-dramatic ways in which Catholic thinkers, from laymen to priests and bishops, sought to interpret and direct democratic thought and practice in line with Catholic ethics. The Christian Democracy was much more than reactionary politics - namely a sincere attempt to integrate a religious worldview into modern politics. Contrary to a purely secular reading, the authors demonstrate that the Catholic embrace of political modernity and democracy emerged as a historically significant alternative to both fascism and socialism, liberalism and conservativism, attempting to re-anchor democracy, justice, and freedom in a religiously argued ethos. Italy's Christian Democracy contributes to existing scholarship by stressing two interrelated aspects crucial for a better understanding of the role that Catholicism and Christian Democracy have played in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the political dimension of transcendence and spirituality and the transformative power of historical experiences and events. The narrative considers the religious and spiritual impulse behind Christian democratic thought, framing Christian Democracy as a distinct form of "political spirituality". Offering a novel historical narrative, Italy's Christian Democracy stresses the contemporary relevance of the nexus between Christianity and modern politics: the current spread of identity politics and the increasing use of religion in political and public discourse, recently appropriated by new populist parties and movements, in Italy and beyond.
Author : Michael Patrick Fogarty
Publisher : London, Routledge
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Christian democracy
ISBN : UCAL:B4411373
This book is a preliminary survey of one aspect of the social influence of the Christian Churches. Its subject is Christian Democracy, the area in which lay men and women, inspired by their Christian faith, take independent responsibility for the running of political parties, trade unions, farmers' unions, and the like.--Provided by author in Preface.
Author : Luigi Sturzo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Christian democracy
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU72980397
Author : Stathis N. Kalyvas
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501731419
Although dominant in West European politics for more than a century, Christian Democratic parties remain largely unexplored and little understood. An investigation of how political identities and parties form, this book considers the origins of Christian Democratic "confessional" parties within the political context of Western Europe. Examining five countries where a successful confessional party emerged (Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Germany, and Italy) and one where it did not (France), Stathis N. Kalyvas addresses perplexing questions raised by the Christian Democratic phenomenon. How can we reconcile the religious roots of these parties with their tremendous success and resilience in secular and democratic Western Europe? Why have these parties discarded their initial principles and objectives to become secular forces governing secular societies? The author's answers reveal the way in which social and political actors make decisions based on self-interest under conditions that constrain their choices and the information they rely on—often with unintended but irrevocable consequences.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. Drawing from political science, sociology, and history, his analysis goes beyond Christian Democracy to address issues related to the methodology of political science, the theory of party formation, the political development of Europe, the relationship between religion and politics, the construction of collective political identities, and the role of agency and contingency in politics.
Author : Michael P. Fogarty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351386722
First published in 1957, this book is a detailed analysis on Christian Democracy, a movement backed by Protestants as well as Catholics, which has become one of the great social forces of Western Europe. It is strong in eight countries. The first half of Fogarty’s book sets out what the many Christian-Democratic movements stand for. The second part of the book shows how these movements began, how they have grown, changed, and consolidated, and how they developed into the mid-20th century. This is a broad and useful survey which delves the history, nature and significance of the Christian Democratic movements in Europe. In Fogarty’s analysis, Christian Democracy may indeed bring about a renewed unity of the Christian tradition in Western society.
Author : Michael Gehler,Wolfram Kaiser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135753856
This book is the first to reveal the roles of the Christian Democratic parties in postwar Europe, systematically and from a pan-European perspective.
Author : R. E. M. Irving
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136955402
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.
Author : Robert Leonardi,Douglas A. Wertman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015016994066
A study of the Italian Christian Democratic Party from its birth to the present day. It is the most successful political party in any Western democracy and has been in power since 1945. This book analyzes its ideological foundations, electorate, organization and ties to the Catholic world.
Author : Piotr H. Kosicki,Sławomir Łukasiewicz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319640877
This book is the first scholarly exploration of how Christian Democracy kept Cold War Europe’s eastern and western halves connected after the creation of the Iron Curtain in the late 1940s. Christian Democrats led the transnational effort to rebuild the continent’s western half after World War II, but this is only one small part of the story of how the Christian Democratic political family transformed Europe and defied the nascent Cold War’s bipolar division of the world. The first section uses case studies from the origins of European integration to reimagine Christian Democracy’s long-term significance for a united Europe. The second shifts the focus to East-Central Europeans, some exiled to Western Europe, some to the USA, others remaining in the Soviet Bloc as dissidents. The transnational activism they pursued helped to ensure that, Iron Curtain or no, the boundary between Europe’s west and east remained permeable, that the Cold War would not last and that Soviet attempts to divide the continent permanently would fail. The book’s final section features the testimony of three key protagonists. This book appeals to a wide range of audiences: undergraduate and graduate students, established scholars, policymakers (in Europe and the Americas) and potentially also general readerships interested in the Cold War or in the future of Europe.
Author : Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108421669
A comprehensive global study of the political ideology of Christian Democracy, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.
Author : Kees van Kersbergen,Philip Manow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139479202
This book radically revises established knowledge in comparative welfare state studies and introduces a new perspective on how religion shaped modern social protection systems. The interplay of societal cleavage structures and electoral rules produced the different political class coalitions sustaining the three welfare regimes of the Western world. In countries with proportional electoral systems the absence or presence of state–church conflicts decided whether class remained the dominant source of coalition building or whether a political logic not exclusively based on socio-economic interests (e.g. religion) was introduced into politics, particularly social policy. The political class-coalitions in countries with majoritarian systems, on the other hand, allowed only for the residual-liberal welfare state to emerge, as in the US or the UK. This book also reconsiders the role of Protestantism. Reformed Protestantism substantially delayed and restricted modern social policy. The Lutheran state churches positively contributed to the introduction of social protection programs.
Author : Kees van Kersbergen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134818334
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
