Book contents
- What Is Christian Democracy?
- What Is Christian Democracy?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Conceptual Building Blocks of the Christian Democratic Ideology
- 1 Anti-Materialism
- 2 Personalism
- 3 Popularism
- 4 Subsidiarity
- 5 Social Capitalism
- 6 Christian Inspiration
- Part II History and Future Prospects of Christian Democracy as a Political Phenomenon
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Popularism
Consociational Democracy and Constitutionalism
from Part I - Conceptual Building Blocks of the Christian Democratic Ideology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 September 2019
- What Is Christian Democracy?
- What Is Christian Democracy?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Conceptual Building Blocks of the Christian Democratic Ideology
- 1 Anti-Materialism
- 2 Personalism
- 3 Popularism
- 4 Subsidiarity
- 5 Social Capitalism
- 6 Christian Inspiration
- Part II History and Future Prospects of Christian Democracy as a Political Phenomenon
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines the specific conception of political subjectivity on which the Christian Democratic ideology is predicated and the vision of democracy that follows from it. As we will see, Christian Democracy is predicated on a particular interpretation of the category of the “people,” which is distinct at once from the liberal, the republican and the populist ones that dominate contemporary political discourse and theory. From it there follows a distinctive conception of democracy, which also diverges in several significant respects from those corresponding to such labels.
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- What is Christian Democracy?Politics, Religion and Ideology, pp. 80 - 110Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019