Chile’s Christian Democratic Party and the Third way

Zhang Kun, Guo Changgang   Journal of Latin American Studies  Jun. 2015

In the last of the 20^th  century, Christian Democratic was a political ideology pursued by the Catholic Church and its members in Latin America. A number of Christian democratic parties were established to participate into elections and integrate Christian values into state policies. Among them, the Christian Democratic Party of Chile was especially remarkable for its political success. It strongly promoted the Third Way based on political compromise and social harmony to overcome ideological conflicts and stabilize political situation. The centrist roule enabled it to rise to be an independent force once accepted by both the left and the right. However, after taking the ruling power,  it lost the centrist stance as a result of increasing economic and political pressure, which led to its failure.

智利基督教民主党与“第三条道路”

《拉丁美洲研究》2015年第3期。

摘要：基督教民主主义在20世纪后半期的拉丁美洲不仅仅作为一种思潮存在于制度性的教会和广大信徒之中,还通过组建政党、参与竞选、制定并实施相关的政策来诠释自身所秉承的天主教理念。在当时的拉美国家中,智利基督教民主党就是这样一个典型。它所具有的异于"左右之争"、带有调和性和包容性的"第三条道路"特征,在不长的时间内改变了智利的政治格局,并成功充当了左右两派之间的缓冲器。然而,在执政后随着角色的转换,原有的优势逐渐变成了劣势,从而导致了这一实践的阶段性失败。