Exile and catholic politics in Spain: National Reconciliation, Europeanisation and the Contested Christian Democratic Alternative to Franco

• Autores: Christopher Stroot
• Localización: Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century: Catholic Christian Democrats in Europe and the Americas / Wolfram Kaiser (aut.), Piotr H. Kosicki (aut.), 2021, ISBN 978-94-6166-422-8, págs. 93-116
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Spain is often seen as an outlier to Europe, and the common narratives of twentieth-century Christian Democracy are no exception. The success of European Christian Democracy in Western Europe after the Second World War plainly contrasts with the “national Catholic” dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Although late in arriving to the Iberian periphery, mass Catholic politics came of age in the interwar Second Republic (1931-36) with the Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas (CEDA), founded in response to vehemently anticlerical policies. Many of its founders were not Christian Democrats per se, but rather what Juan Linz has called “semi-loyal” to the Republic,...