Abstract
One of the peculiarities of the territorial dimension of Christian Democracy in Germany is the fact that it is represented by not one, but two parties: the CDU and the Bavarian CSU. This article focuses on the CSU and discusses the pressures for transformation that it has been subjected to, by focusing on the question of whether it can still be considered as a Volkspartei. The article disaggregates this term around the notions of a majority party (Smith), office-holding party (Fröhlich), membership party (Wiesendahl), cross-class party (Nipperdey) and Kirchheimer's catch-all party. The paper concludes that the CSU remains a Volkspartei, albeit with some qualifications.
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