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What Is Christian Democracy? Christian Democratic actors and thinkers have been at the forefront of manyofthetwentiethcentury’skeypoliticalbattles–fromtheconstruc- tion of the international human rights regime, through the process of European integration and the creation of postwar welfare regimes, to LatinAmericandevelopmentpoliciesduringtheColdWar.Yettheircore ideasremainlargelyunknown,especiallyintheEnglish-speakingworld. Combining conceptual and historical approaches, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti traces the development of this ideology in the thought and writingsofsomeofitskeyintellectualandpoliticalexponents,fromthe mid-nineteenthcenturytothepresentday.Insodoingheshedslightona number of important contemporary issues, from the question of the appropriateplaceofreligioninpresumptively‘secular’liberal-democratic regimes, to the normative resources available for building a political responsetotherecentriseoffar-rightpopulism. isAssociateProfessorofPoliticalScience at the City University of New York – City College 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-authoredwithChristopherBickerton,forthcoming). What Is Christian Democracy? Politics, Religion and Ideology CARLO INVERNIZZI ACCETTI CityUniversityofNewYork–CityCollege UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge28,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108421669 :10.1017/9781108368162 ©CarloInvernizziAccetti2019 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2019 PrintedandboundinGreatBritainbyClaysLtd,ElcografS.p.A. 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To my father, who suggested never to write dedications Contents Acknowledgments pageix List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction: Why Lookat Christian Democracy? 1           1 Anti-Materialism: Christian Democracy’s Philosophy of History 29 2 Personalism: Neo-Thomist Metaphysics andHuman Rights 53 3 Popularism: ConsociationalDemocracy and Constitutionalism 80 4 Subsidiarity: ATheoryof the State and Internationalism 111 5 Social Capitalism: Principles of Christian Democratic Political Economy 139 6 ChristianInspiration: The Role of Religion inPolitics 169              7 ChristianDemocracy in Continental Europe:From Dominance to Doom? 193 8 The European Union asa Christian Democracy: AHeuristic Approach 248 vii viii Tableof Contents 9 Christian Democracyin the Americas:Periphery or Vanguard? 280 10 Persistent Normative Potential of Christian Democracy: Between Muslim Democracy and Far-Right Populism 317 Conclusion 345 Bibliography 355 Index 381 Acknowledgments This book has been several years in the making. Over time, I acquired more debts of gratitude than could possibly be acknowledged in a short note.TheoriginalideafortheprojectwasdevelopedwhileIwasafellow attheItalianAcademyforAdvancedStudiesatColumbiaUniversity,for which I thank David Freedberg and the immensely helpful staff there. IsubsequentlyundertookgroundworkresearchattheCenterforPolitical TheoryoftheUniversitéLibredeBruxelles,whereIamextremelygrateful toJustineLacroixforbelieving inmeatadifﬁcult moment oftransition, and Jean-Yves Pranchère, Christopher Hamel and other colleagues there forstimulating conversations. More research and very helpful conversations were carried out at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), where I am especially grateful to Jean-Marie Donegani and Astrid Von Busekist at the Ecole Doctorale; Renaud Dehousse, Florence Haegel, Colin Hay and Nonna Mayer at the Center for European Studies, and Janie Pelabay at the CEVIPOF. The bulk of the writing was then carried out at the City College of New York, where I have been immersed in an incredibly friendly, helpful and stimulating working environment. I particularly want to thank Sherrie Baver, Richard Bernstein, Bruce Cronin, Daniel DiSalvo, Jean Krasno, John Krinsky, Rajan Menon, Mira Morgenstern, Nicholas Rush Smith, Karen Struening and Jacqueline Williams for makingthispossible.Joiningthisdepartmenthasbeenthebestthingthat happened to me in my working life and I feel grateful to you every day Iwalkthrough the door. Duringthedraftingprocess,portionsofthemanuscriptwerepresented at the City College of New York, Columbia University, the CUNY ix