Christian Democracy

In this article, we briefly outline the process of establishment of the Catholic People’s Party, in addition to focusing on the programme of the first Hungarian Christian party. The history of the c...

Up until today, Christian democracy, at least on a conceptual level, has been decisive in Hungarian politics. In our analysis, we investigate the historical roots of Hungarian Christian democracy. Aft...

The roots of Christian democracy stretch far, at least to the beginnings of the 19th century. In our former article entitled the Forgotten Origins of Christian Democracy, published in the Hungarian Co...

The roots of Christian democracy stretch far, at least to the beginning of the 19th century. In our former article entitled the Forgotten Origins of Christian Democracy, published in the Hungarian Con...

Christian democracy, like other political ideologies, has a solid value orientation. Naturally, values tend to change in the light of the dominant norms of the current society. Still, there is a gener...

There is a broad consensus that the CDU has been “the Christian democratic party” in the past seventy years. Several reasons are behind this convention which, in general, we do not question. Yet...

In contrast to most of the Western European countries, in the United Kingdom there has never been a strong Christian democracy. This article, – after justifying this statement, – ventures back t...

Abstract: The dilemma of whether a political party represents Christian democratic values in the public sphere ‘truly’ is exposed to day-to-day political debates. This article would like to contri...

Christian Democratic politics is commonly associated with the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) in Europe. Although the federal elections are approaching, a to...