Christian Democracy, which may briefly be defined as organised political action by Catholic democrats, has been a major political force in Western Europe since
Kalyvas also lays a foundation for a theory of the Christian Democratic phenomenon which would specify the conditions under which confessional parties succeed a
Christian Democratic actors and thinkers have been at the forefront of many of the twentieth century's key political battles - from the construction of the inte
Major study of the role of European Christian democratic parties in the making of the European Union. It radically re-conceptualises European integration in lon