TY  - JOUR
AB  - Christian Democracy as an ideology and as a political movement has been ascendant in Western European states for half a century, forming the governing party or a major part of the governing coalition of parties in many of them over numerous decades up to the present. Yet the study of Christian Democracy, its general ideology and general programmatic elements across Western Europe, has been singularly lacking. Centrist establishment parties and economic programmes seem not to have the same appeal to academic investigators as the more exciting and ideologically demarcated ones. Also the future seems bleak for some Christian Democratic parties in Western Europe. The focuses are on the general ideology of the movement and the shared programmatic commonalities among the parties. Advances a consideration of the future for CD parties in the short term and the problems confronting Christian Democracy in the future. Also assesses the role and prospects for Christian Democracy in the European Union, particularly as they relate to the European People’s Party (EPP) in the European Parliament.
VL  - 24
IS  - 10
SN  - 0306-8293
DO  - 10.1108/03068299710184921
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/03068299710184921
AU  - Rutan Gerard F.
PY  - 1997
Y1  - 1997/01/01
TI  - Christian Democracy in Western Europe: an idea whose time has passed?
T2  - International Journal of Social Economics
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 1103
EP  - 1131
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -