Conservatism, Christian Democracy and the Dynamics of Transformation

Gary Love is Professor of British History and Culture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)Christian Egander Skov is a scholar of Danish political history at the Danish think tank Prospekt and a former Postdoctoral Researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

• Introduction – Gary Love and Christian Egander Skov1 Christianity and party ideology. German Christian Democracy, British Conservatism and the problem of religion between the 1950s and 1980s – Martina Steber2 From the valley of shadows to a glimpse of happiness: Høyre in the heydays of Norwegian post-war social democracy – Lars Fredrik Øksendal3 Swedish Conservatism 1945–1991: from the defence of classic values to market liberalism – Torbjörn Nilsson4 Transnationalism and the rethinking of Danish conservatism, 1945–1968 – Christian Egander Skov5 The National Coalition Party and Finnish political culture – Vesa Vares6 European construction as a factor of French internal politics, 1950–1972 – Marc Olivier Baruch7 A cosmopolitan conservative. Arvid Fredborg, transnational networks and the reinvention of conservatism in post-war Europe – Johannes Großmann8 Conservative and Christian Democratic student activism in the age of campus protest in Britain and West Germany – John Davis and Anna von der Goltz9 Britain’s social market moment: the transnational centre-right and the construction of the Thatcherite coalition – Benjamin Thomas10 Between ‘progressive realism’ and conservative internationalism: the transformation of Austrian and West German Christian Democracy in the 1970s – Fabio Wolkenstein11 ‘The struggle is international’: Conservatives, Christian Democrats, and the International Democrat Union, 1978–90 – Gary Love12 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