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Conservatism, Christian Democracy and the dynamics of transformation

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02 September 2025


POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Comparative politics, European history, Political parties and party platforms

Introduction – Gary Love and Christian Egander Skov
1 Christianity and party ideology. German Christian Democracy, British Conservatism and the problem of religion between the 1950s and 1980s – Martina Steber
2 From the valley of shadows to a glimpse of happiness: Høyre in the heydays of Norwegian post-war social democracy – Lars Fredrik Øksendal
3 Swedish Conservatism 1945–1991: from the defence of classic values to market liberalism – Torbjörn Nilsson
4 Transnationalism and the rethinking of Danish conservatism, 1945–1968 – Christian Egander Skov
5 The National Coalition Party and Finnish political culture – Vesa Vares
6 European construction as a factor of French internal politics, 1950–1972 – Marc Olivier Baruch
7 A cosmopolitan conservative. Arvid Fredborg, transnational networks and the reinvention of conservatism in post-war Europe – Johannes Großmann
8 Conservative and Christian Democratic student activism in the age of campus protest in Britain and West Germany – John Davis and Anna von der Goltz
9 Britain’s social market moment: the transnational centre-right and the construction of the Thatcherite coalition – Benjamin Thomas
10 Between ‘progressive realism’ and conservative internationalism: the transformation of Austrian and West German Christian Democracy in the 1970s – Fabio Wolkenstein
11 ‘The struggle is international’: Conservatives, Christian Democrats, and the International Democrat Union, 1978–90 – Gary Love
12 Thatcherism on a European scale? The lost world of British pro-European neoliberalism – Ben Jackson
Afterword: The multiple political cultures of the centre-right – Martin Conway