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Confessions of an Interest Group: The Catholic Church and Political Parties in Europe

Confessions of an Interest Group: The Catholic Church and Political Parties in Europe

Paperback

General Political Science

ISBN10: 0691010269
ISBN13: 9780691010267
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Apr 16 2000
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Following World War II, the Catholic Church in Europe faced the challenge of establishing political influence with newly emerging democratic governments. The Church became, as Carolyn Warner pointedly argues, an interest group like any other, seeking to attain and solidify its influence by forming alliances with political parties. The author analyzes the Church's differing strategies in Italy, France, and Germany using microeconomic theories of the firm and historical institutionalism. She demonstrates how only a strategic perspective can explain the choice and longevity of the alliances in each case. In so doing, the author challenges earlier work that ignores the costs to interest groups and parties of sustaining or breaking their reciprocal links.


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