Carlo Invernizzi Accetti

What is Christian Democracy?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive global study of the political ideology of Christian Democracy, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9781108421669
• ISBN-10: 1108421660
• Artikelnr.: 55192025

Autorenporträt

Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the City College, City University of New York and Associate Researcher at the Center for European Studies of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). He is the author of Relativism and Religion: Why Democratic Societies Do Not Need Moral Absolutes (2015) and Techno-populism: The New Logic of Democratic Politics (co-authored with Christopher Bickerton, forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Conceptual Building Blocks of the Christian
Democratic Ideology: 1. Anti-materialism: Christian Democracy's philosophy
of history; 2. Personalism: neo-thomist metaphysics and human rights; 3.
Popularism: consociational democracy and constitutionalism; 4.
Subsidiarity: a theory of the state and internationalism; 5. Social
capitalism: principles of Christian Democratic political economy; 6.
Christian inspiration: the role of religion in politics; Part II. History
and Future Prospects of Christian Democracy as a Political Phenomenon: 7.
Christian Democracy in Continental Europe: from dominance to doom?; 8. The
European Union as a Christian Democracy: a heuristic approach; 9. Christian
Democracy in the Americas: periphery or vanguard?; 10. Persistent normative
potential of Christian Democracy: between Muslim Democracy and far-right
populism; Conclusion.