Christian democratic parties are political parties that seek to apply Christian principles to public policy. The underlying Christian democracy movement emerged in 19th-century Europe, largely under the influence of Catholic social teaching and Neo-Calvinist theology.[1][2] Christian democracy continues to be influential in Europe and Latin America, though in a number of countries its Christian ethos has been diluted by secularisation. In practice, Christian democracy often advocates centre-right positions on cultural, social, and moral issues and social market economic policies.[3] In Europe, where their opponents have traditionally been secularist socialists, Christian democratic parties are moderately conservative overall, whereas in the very different cultural and political environment of Latin America they tend to lean to the left. It is the dominant centre-right political movement in Europe.
Alphabetical list by country
A
Albania
- Albanian Christian Democratic Movement
- Christian Democratic Party of Albania
- Christian-Democratic Rebirth Party[5]
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- Christian Democratic Party
- Democratic Labour Party
B
- Belarusian Christian Democracy
- BPF Party
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- Christian Democratic and Flemish[7]
- Humanist Democratic Centre[7]
- Christian Social Party
- ProDG[7]
- Citizens' Movement for Change
- Croatian Democratic Union 1990[8]
- Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina[8]
- Croatian Christian Democrats
- Brazilian Republican Party
- Christian Democracy
- Christian Democracy Union of Brazil
- Christian Labour Party
- Social Christian Party
Bulgaria
- Union of Democratic Forces
- Christ Democratic Party of Bulgaria
- Reformist Bloc[9]
- Christian Democratic Party
C
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- Movement for Democracy
- União Caboverdeana Independente e Democratica (Cape Verdean Union for an Independent Democracy) – UCID
- Christian Democratic Party[4]
Colombia
- Christian National Party
- Christians for Community
- Christian Social Democratic Party[4]
- Christian Democratic Party[4]
- Reform Party[4]
- Social Christian Unity Party
- Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party[12]
D
- Christian Democratic Union
- Christian Democratic Party[4]
- Social Christian Reformist Party
E
- Christian Democratic Party
- Christian Democratic Union of Timor
- Christian Democratic Party (Ecuador)[4]
- Social Christian Party
- Christian Democratic Party (Egypt), a Coptic party in Egypt founded in the 1950s.[13]
- Pro Patria and Res Publica Union[14]
- Party of Estonian Christian Democrats
European Union
F
Faroe Islands
- The Republicans[17]
- Christian Democratic Party
G
- Christian-Democratic Movement
- Alliance of Patriots of Georgia
- Christian Democratic Union of Germany[18]
- Christian Social Union in Bavaria[18]
- Centre Party
- Family Party of Germany
- Alliance C – Christians for Germany (de)
Gibraltar
- Christian Democratic Party of the Overthrow
- New Democracy[19]
H
Hungary
I
- Christian Democratic Party Indonesia
- Chaldean Democratic Party
- Union of the Centre[22]
- Popular Alternative
- Populars for Italy
- South Tyrolean People's Party[22]
- Forza Italia[22]
K
- Albanian Christian Democratic Party of Kosovo
L
Liechtenstein
- Lithuanian Christian Democrats Party
- Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats [24]
- Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania[24]
M
N
- Christian Democratic Appeal[26]
- Christian Union[26]
Nicaragua
- Social Christian Party[4]
North Macedonia
- VMRO–DPMNE[27]
P
Panama
- Christian Democratic Party[4]
- Christian People's Party[4]
- Democratic Party "We are Peru"
- Lakas–CMD (Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats)
- Bangon Pilipinas Party
- Centrist Democratic Party of the Philippines
- Agreement
- Christian Democracy of the 3rd Polish Republic
- Civic Platform[29]
- Law and Justice
- Polish People's Party[29]
- Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party[30]
- Social Democratic Party
R
- Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party
- People's Movement Party[31]
S
San Marino
- Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party[32]
- Union for the Republic[32]
- Christian Democratic Movement[34]
- Slovak Conservative Party[34]
- Party of the Hungarian Community
- Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party[34]
Slovenia
- People's Party[36]
- Basque Nationalist Party[36]
- Democrats of Catalonia[37]
Switzerland
- Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland[39]
- Christian Social Party of Obwalden[39]
- Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland[39]
U
- Christian Democratic Union
- Self Reliance
- Ukrainian Galician Party
- The Common Good[40][41]
- Christian Peoples Alliance[42]
- American Solidarity Party[43]
Uruguay
V
- Project Venezuela[45]
- Political Electoral Independent Organization Committee (COPEI)[4]
- National Convergence
Other entities
- Global – Centrist Democrat International – headquartered in Brussels
- European Union – European People's Party – Centrist Democratic regional in Europe; and the largest group in European Parliament
European Christian Political Movement - Americas – Christian Democrat Organization of America – Centrist Democratic regional in the Americas, North and South
Related philosophies
- Catholic social teaching
- Communitarianism
- Distributism
- Neo-Calvinism
- Social conservatism
- Social market economy
- Political Catholicism
- Christian politics
- Christian Zionism
- Liberal Conservatism
- Abolitionism
- New World Order
Indices
See also
- Christian left
- Christian right
- Communitarianism
References
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This is the Christian Democratic tradition and the structural pluralist concepts that underlie it. The Roman Catholic social teaching of subsidiarity and its related concepts, as well as the parallel neo-Calvinist concept of sphere sovereignty, play major roles in structural pluralist thought.
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Concurrent with this missionary movement in Africa, both Protestant and Catholic political activists helped to restore democracy to war-torn Europe and extend it overseas. Protestant political activism emerged principally in England, the Lowlands, and Scandinavia under the inspiration of both social gospel movements and neo-Calvinism. Catholic political activism emerged principally in Italy, France, and Spain under the inspiration of both Rerum Novarum and its early progeny and of neo-Thomism. Both formed political parties, which now fall under the general aegis of the Christian Democratic Party movement. Both Protestant and Catholic parties inveighed against the reductionist extremes and social failures of liberal democracies and social democracies. Liberal democracies, they believed, had sacrificed the community for the individual; social democracies had sacrificed the individual for the community. Both parties returned to a traditional Christian teaching of "social pluralism" or "subsidiarity," which stressed the dependence and participation of the individual in family, church, school, business, and other associations. Both parties stressed the responsibility of the state to respect and protect the "individual in community."
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