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Article: Confessions of an Interest Group: The Catholic Church and Political Parties in Europe.
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- Church History
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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By Carolyn M. Warner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. xvi + 249 pp. $57.50 cloth; $17.95 paper.
Using both archival sources and secondary works, Carolyn Warner, a professor of political science at Arizona State University, has written an engaging account of the relationship between the Catholic Church and the post-World War II (1944-58) Christian Democratic parties in Italy, France, and Germany. Warner states that "the Catholic Church is an interest group whose actions can be modeled as if it were a firm in a market seeking a supplier of goods" (4). To this end, the church has entered into mutually beneficial agreements with specific political ...