Popolarismo
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Popolarismo () is the term Italian politician Luigi Sturzo used to describe his political doctrine that formed the ideological basis for the Italian Popular Party and later Christian Democracy. In the Papal Encyclical Graves de Communi, (1901) Pope Leo XIII did not want Christian Democracy to enter the political sphere, and restricted it to social action. Sturzo developed Popularism as an alternative means of political action, which had an ideological focus on the people. As one academic notes:
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- Instance of
- political ideology
- Subclass of
- centrism
- Country of origin
- Kingdom of Italy
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- facet of
- Christian democracy
- different from
- populism
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Popolarismo () is the term Italian politician Luigi Sturzo used to describe his political doctrine that formed the ideological basis for the Italian Popular Party and later Christian Democracy. In the Papal Encyclical Graves de Communi, (1901) Pope Leo XIII did not want Christian Democracy to enter the political sphere, and restricted it to social action. Sturzo developed Popularism as an alternative means of political action, which had an ideological focus on the people. As one academic notes:
In this European context, Popularism helped Catholics come to accept democratic institutions, alongside inspiring the French Popular Democratic Party (formed 1924), the Spanish , and the People and Freedom group (formed 1936), which Sturzo helped form in London. Sturzo outlined his conception of popularism as follows:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Popolarismo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.