Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union by Wolfram Kaiser

By Wolfram Kaiser

Significant examine of the function of eu Christian democratic events within the making of the ecu Union. It greatly re-conceptualises eu integration in long term ancient viewpoint because the consequence of partisan festival of political ideologies and events and their guiding principles for the way forward for Europe. Wolfram Kaiser takes a comparative method of political Catholicism within the 19th century, Catholic events in interwar Europe and Christian democratic events in postwar Europe and stories those events' cross-border contacts and co-ordination of policy-making. He exhibits how good networked occasion elites ensured that the origins of ecu Union have been predominately Christian democratic, with massive repercussions for the present-day european. The elites succeeded by way of intensifying their cross-border verbal exchange and coordinating their political strategies and coverage making in executive. it is a significant contribution to the recent transnational historical past of Europe and the historical past of eu integration.

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While the German political system progressively acquired quasiparliamentary features before World War I, however, it did not have parliamentary government. Ultimately, national governments depended on the goodwill of the Emperor, and their composition was highly personalised, with no direct control or influence by the political parties. However, a party like the Centre Party that could not at least potentially acquire a direct stake in government and policy-making neither had the same incentives for cross-border contacts to facilitate policy transfer or coordinate foreign policy nor the same political capital to be attractive as a partner for sister parties abroad.

21 It also attracted participants from neighbouring countries for its various social and educational activities, providing a model for left-Catholicism in the Netherlands and elsewhere. 23 Although 20 21 22 23 For a comparative introduction to Catholic party formation in nineteenth-century Europe see Ellen L. : Humanities Press, 1999); Stathis N. : Cornell University Press, 1996). Ju¨rgen Elvert, ‘A Microcosm of Society or the Key to a Majority in the Reichstag? ), Political Catholicism, 53. On the Volksverein, see also Horstwalter Heitzer, Der Volksverein fu¨r das katholische Deutschland im Kaiserreich 1890–1918 (Mainz: Matthias-Gru¨newald-Verlag, 1979).

As a whole way of life involving many different folk communities, each having its own physical identity but bound together by a higher order . . 13 The anticlerical attacks and his counterattacks also allowed the Pope to stigmatise deviant behaviour within the Church and impose drastic sanctions against it such as in the case of the liberal Catholic professor of theology Ignaz Do¨llinger who was excommunicated by the Archbishop of Munich for his continued opposition to papal infallibility in 1870.

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