Understanding the Transformation of Germany’s CDU

Understanding the Transformation of Germany’s CDU
Author: Simon Green
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2016-02-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317633520

This book analyses the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), one of Europe’s most successful and influential political parties. The CDU might have been expected to struggle in the circumstances of a more diverse, secular reunified Germany, yet it has prospered to an extent almost unparalleled in western Europe. Chapters consider the CDU’s policies (the factors driving them, their variation across Germany, the relationship to women, and the welfare state), its organisational development and change, and its position within the party system. Contributors particularly emphasise the diversity of the CDU, and the way it varies across Germany’s regions. The CDU is compared to other Christian Democratic parties, and special consideration is given to the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU). This book was published as a special issue of German Politics.

The Origins of Christian Democracy

The Origins of Christian Democracy
Author: Maria Mitchell
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2012-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0472118412

A pioneering exploration of the origins of German Christian Democracy in the context of 19th- and 20th-century politics and religion

The Christian Democrat International

The Christian Democrat International
Author: Roberto Papini
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1997
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780847683000

This text examines the history, organisation and continuing worldwide influence of the International Christian Democratic movement, which currently has nearly 70 parties on five continents. It demonstrates how a religious political movement has acquired such wide political influence.

Understanding the Transformation of Germany’s CDU

Understanding the Transformation of Germany’s CDU
Author: Simon Green
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2016-02-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317633512

This book analyses the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), one of Europe’s most successful and influential political parties. The CDU might have been expected to struggle in the circumstances of a more diverse, secular reunified Germany, yet it has prospered to an extent almost unparalleled in western Europe. Chapters consider the CDU’s policies (the factors driving them, their variation across Germany, the relationship to women, and the welfare state), its organisational development and change, and its position within the party system. Contributors particularly emphasise the diversity of the CDU, and the way it varies across Germany’s regions. The CDU is compared to other Christian Democratic parties, and special consideration is given to the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU). This book was published as a special issue of German Politics.

What is Christian Democracy?

What is Christian Democracy?
Author: Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2019-10-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108386156

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 international human rights regime, through the process of European integration and the creation of postwar welfare regimes, to Latin American development policies during the Cold War. Yet their core ideas remain largely unknown, especially in the English-speaking world. Combining conceptual and historical approaches, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti traces the development of this ideology in the thought and writings of some of its key intellectual and political exponents, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. In so doing he sheds light on a number of important contemporary issues, from the question of the appropriate place of religion in presumptively 'secular' liberal-democratic regimes, to the normative resources available for building a political response to the recent rise of far-right populism.

Adenauer and the CDU

Adenauer and the CDU
Author: Arnold J. Heidenheimer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9401188106

This is a study in the reestablishment of de mocratic party politics in divided and occupied Germany after the downfall of the National Socialist tyranny. Its subject is the growth of the Christian Democratic Union and the rise to power of its leader, Konrad Adenauer. Closely associated with the success of the German Federal Republic in achieving prosperity, political and military power and the status of an ally of the Western powers, the CDU has yet been the subject of widely varying evaluations. Like the regime with which it is associated, it suffers from the fact that for many observers admiration for some German post-war achievements is mixed with residual distrust and skepticism. In addition, understanding of the CDU has been handicapped by confused images of the forces it represents, lack of knowledge about its internal organization, and the overwhelming position which its leader has achieved in recent years. To observers both in Germany and abroad the dominant Chancellor and party leader appears to overshadow both party and government with the result that the 1950'S, the vital period of German reconstruction, has already been labelled the Adenauer Decade.