Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union 1st Edition by Wolfram Kaiser ISBN 0521883108 978-0521883108

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ISBN 10:  0521883108 

ISBN 13: 978-0521883108

Author: Wolfram Kaiser

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.

Table of contents: 

1 All paths to Rome? Transnational Catholicism in the nineteenth century
2 Under siege: Catholic parties in interwar Europe
3 After Versailles: left-Catholic cooperation
4 In the shadow of dictatorship: contacts in exile
5 Hegemony by default: Christian democracy in postwar Europe
6 Creating core Europe: the rise of the party network
7 Deepening integration: the supranational coalition embattled
8 Informal politics: from Rome to Maastricht

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