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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Callaghan, John (Editor), Callaghan, John (John T.), editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester Manchester University Press 2009
Baltimore, Maryland : 2019
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.