Leftism reinvented Western parties from socialism to neoliberalism

Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the market's tendencies to produce inequality. But in the 1990s they gave up on protection, asking voters to adapt to a...

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Other Authors: Mudge, Stephanie L., 1973- autora (autora)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Socialist, economistic, and neoliberalized leftism
  • Making the infrastructure of socialist leftism, 1880s-1920s
  • European leftism's first reinvention, 1920s-1960s
  • Economistic leftism, American-style, or, making the Democrats "left"
  • Reformatting economics, reinventing leftism
  • New economists, new experts, new Democrats
  • Making Western European leftism "progressive"
  • Conclusions and implications.