Wolfram Kaiser’s scientific contributions

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Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union
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January 2007

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Wolfram Kaiser

Major study of the role of European Christian democratic parties in the making of the European Union. It radically re-conceptualises European integration in long-term historical perspective as the outcome of partisan competition of political ideologies and parties and their guiding ideas for the future of Europe. Wolfram Kaiser takes a comparative approach to political Catholicism in the nineteenth century, Catholic parties in interwar Europe and Christian democratic parties in postwar Europe and studies these parties' cross-border contacts and co-ordination of policy-making. He shows how well networked party elites ensured that the origins of European Union were predominately Christian democratic, with considerable repercussions for the present-day EU. The elites succeeded by intensifying their cross-border communication and coordinating their political tactics and policy making in government. This is a major contribution to the new transnational history of Europe and the history of European integration.

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... In a less polemic vein, the view of the EU as the reflection of certain ideological traditions has been explored in literature on how different ideological traditions contributed to shaping the contemporary form of the EU (White, 2020;Ferrera, 2024). In these works, particular attention has been paid to how Christian Democrats shaped the EU (Kalyvas, 1996;Kaiser, 2007;Kalyvas and Van Kersbergen, 2010;Müller, 2013) and how Christian Democratic concepts and categories manifest themselves in the contemporary institutional framework of the EU (Invernizzi Accetti, 2019, 2020). What these works highlight is that certain people and parties from different ideological traditions developed ideas on how the EU should look, and those ideas are, today, part of the make of the European Union. ...

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Ideologising Europe and Europeanising Ideology: Political Party Ideologies and the European Union Ideologising Europe and Europeanising Ideology: Political Party Ideologies and The European Union
Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union
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