In Search of Social Democracy : Responses to Crisis and Modernisation /

The search for social democracy has not been an easy one over the last three decades. The economic crisis of the 1970s, and the consequent rise of neo-liberalism, confronted social democrats with difficult new circumstances: tax-resistant electorates, the globalisation of capital and Western deindus...

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Other Authors: Callaghan, John (John T.) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York [New York] : Manchester University Press, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • part I. After the golden age : social democracy in crisis. Explanations for the neo-liberal direction of social democracy : Germany, Sweden and Australia compared / Ashley Lavelle
  • Fiscal policies, social spending and economic performance in France, Germany and the UK since 1970 / Norman Flynn
  • From The future of socialism (1956) to a future without socialism? The crisis of British social democratic political economy / Noel Thompson
  • part II. Responses to the crisis : the Third Way and other revisions. The political economy of French social democratic economic policy autonomy, 1997-2002 : credibility, dirigisme and globalisation / Ben Clift
  • The Spanish Socialist Worker's Party : continuity, innovation and renewal / Paul Kennedy
  • A new Swedish model? Swedish social democracy at the crossroads / Dimitris Tsarouhas
  • The modernisation of German social democracy : towards a third way and back? / Hartwig Pautz
  • The meaning of modernisation : New Labour and public sector reform / Eric Shaw
  • Reformism in a 'conservative' system : the European Union and social democratic identity / Gerassimos Moschonas
  • part III. Resources for rethinking. Unlocking the talent of every citizen : debates about potential and ambition in British socialist thought / Jeremy Nuttall
  • The continuing relevance of Croslandite social democracy / Kevin Hickson
  • The rhetoric of redistribution / Ben Jackson
  • Republicanism, socialism and the renewal of the left / Martin McIvor
  • Economic democracy instead of more capitalism : core historical concepts reconsidered / Adrian Zimmermann
  • Afterward / Nina Fishman.