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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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• Full title: Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union
• Author: Wolfram Kaiser
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 390
• EAN: 9780521883108
• ISBN: 0521883105
• ID: 02048939
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 750 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. November 2007

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