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8 - The European Union as a Christian Democracy

A Heuristic Approach

from Part II - History and Future Prospects of Christian Democracy as a Political Phenomenon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 September 2019

Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Affiliation:
City College, City University of New York
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Summary

This chapter tests the main empirical hypothesis introduced at the end of Chapter 7. If it is true that the most significant mode of persistence of the Christian Democratic ideology in the contemporary political landscape is not as a partisan phenomenon, but rather as a feature of established institutional frameworks and political cultures in regimes where it previously held a dominant political position, then many of its distinctive features should still be visible in these institutional frameworks and political cultures. To see whether this is indeed the case, I will focus on one such regime in particular: the EU.

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Christian DemocracyEuropean IntegrationEuropean Social Model,SubsidiarityFederalismIntergovernmentalismNeo-LiberalismSocial Democracy
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What is Christian Democracy?
Politics, Religion and Ideology
 , pp. 248 - 279
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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