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

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

This book is the first to reveal the roles of the Christian Democratic parties in postwar Europe, systematically and from a pan-European perspective.

This book is the first scholarly exploration of how Christian Democracy kept Cold War Europe’s eastern and western halves connected after the creation of the