Conservatism, Christian Democracy and the dynamics of transformation
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Conservatism, Christian Democracy and the dynamics of transformation

Traditions, cooperation and influence in North-West Europe, 1945-91

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Conservatism, Christian Democracy and the dynamics of transformation

Traditions, cooperation and influence in North-West Europe, 1945-91

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Conservatism, Christian Democracy, and the Dynamics of Transformation compares the centre-right political traditions of Britain, the Nordic countries, France, West Germany, and Austria and looks for evidence of political cooperation and influence across borders during the period 1945-90. The book explores howa variety of intellectuals, politicians, and political parties transformed their politics in response to major economic, social, and political challenges and seeks to explain why conservatives and Christian democrats came to feel that they belonged to a wider centre-right political family by the end of this period. It also examines why these political traditions found it difficult to cooperate with each other after the Second World War and why they decided to invest more political capital in inter-party relations and wider transnational projects from the 1960s. As the book shows, these developments resulted in two new centre-right internationals: the European Democrat Union and the International Democrat Union.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. List of abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Christianity and party ideology: German Christian Democracy, British Conservatism and the problem of religion between the 1950s and 1980s
  12. 2 From the valley of shadows to a glimpse of happiness: Høyre in the heydays of Norwegian post-war social democracy
  13. 3 Swedish Conservatism 1945–91: from the defence of classic values to market liberalism
  14. 4 Transnationalism and the rethinking of Danish Conservatism, 1945–68
  15. 5 The National Coalition Party and Finnish political culture
  16. 6 European construction as a factor in French internal politics, 1950–72
  17. 7 A cosmopolitan conservative: Arvid Fredborg, transnational networks and the reinvention of conservatism in post-war Europe
  18. 8 Conservative and Christian Democratic student activism in the age of campus protest in Britain and West Germany
  19. 9 Britain’s social market moment: the transnational centre-right and the construction of the Thatcherite coalition
  20. 10 Between ‘progressive realism’ and conservative internationalism: the transformation of Austrian and West German Christian Democracy in the 1970s
  21. 11 ‘The struggle is international’: Conservatives, Christian Democrats, and the International Democrat Union, 1978–90
  22. 12 Thatcherism on a European scale? The lost world of British pro-European neoliberalism
  23. Afterword: the multiple political cultures of the centre-right
  24. Index