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Christian DemocracyPolitical movement that has a close association with Roman Catholicism and its philosophy of social and economic justice. It incorporates both traditional church and family values and progressive values such as social welfare. After World War II, a number of Christian Democrat parties appeared in Europe, including the Italian Christian Democratic Party, the French Popular Republican Movement, and the most successful, the German Christian Democratic Union. The same period also saw the appearance of Christian Democrat parties in Latin America. Though most were small splinter groups, Christian Democrats eventually achieved power in Venezuela, El Salvador, and Chile. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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com, a new website sponsored by Christian Democrats (Chicago Tribune, Sept. The critique of widening inequality and entrenched privilege is a lesson that needs to be heeded not only by France but by the rest of "Old Europe," especially Germany and Italy, where the class alliances underlying the political coalitions of Social Democrats and Christian Democrats have led to a "two-thirds society," in the words of German critics such as Stephan Leibfried, and to a very uneven transformation of old hierarchies in Italy. An economics professor from Bologna, but well-connected politically with the left wing of the Christian Democrats, he formed the Ulivo (Olive Tree) coalition as a rallying point around which liberals and Christian Democrats opposed to Berlusconi could cooperate with the Left Democrats, the heirs to the Italian Communist tradition and party apparatus. |
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