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Author: Robert Ladrech
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781555879020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe also explores what this new form of political activity means for European politics, arguing that the traditional positions of left and right may be becoming increasingly significant within the EU's evolving, transnational political culture.
Author: Donald Sassoon
Publisher: Institute for Public Policy Research
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781860300400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Keating
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015-04-20
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0748665846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the fortunes of social democracy in Western and East-Central Europe and the policy challenges it faces. By arguing that social democracy is a way of reconciling market capitalism with social inclusion and equality, they show that it h
Author: Forum Scholars for European Social Democracy. Conference
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNowadays, the political discourse of European Social Democracy seems to pose more questions than to offer sound solution patterns and policies. This is, given the dynamic field of migration and integration, not unexpected and surprising. How migration and integration policies should be constructed and built up against the background of divergent national histories and cultures is still a demanding task. Thus formulating the right questions and intimating paths to solutions is the first decisive step. This book explores social democratic reactions, responses, and policies concerning the big issues of migration and multiculturalism. The authors map out a range of new social-democratic thinking having experienced waves of migration, different approaches of integration policies, and right-wing populist reactions in their respective countries.
Author: H. Meyer
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-11-22
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0230355048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEuropean social democracy is in crisis. In the last decade it has ceased to be about either society or democracy. The authors explore its values, how it can be revived and what kind of political economy it requires to thrive. This book includes a foreword by the two leaders of the 'Building the Good Society' project, Andrea Nahles and Jon Cruddas.
Author: Pascal Delwit
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocialist and Social Democratic parties leave few political observers and citizens indifferent. For several years, a certain number of actors on the political scene have presented it as a political family in crisis, lacking in imagination and dynamism, incapable of renewal and doomed to fade into insignificance. Others, on the contrary, describe it as a grouping with a promising, even brilliant future.This book does not set out to confirm either of those two visions. Its aim is to analyse in-depth the transformations which are affecting, at the current time, the different aspects of Social Democracy: new organisational models, changes in political and electoral performance, changing relations with the trade unions and civil society associations, reactions to the emergence of new political rivais and new values, new ideological trends and political programmes, etc. For the first time, the analysis does not concern exclusively Western Europe, but also deals with the Social Democratic parties of the consolidated democracies and the organisations that claim to be part of democratic socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, and highlights the specific characteristics and points in common. At the dawn of the 21st century, it is therefore the challenges and the different responses to those challenges that are analysed by several of the leading European specialists in Social Democratic parties in Europe.
Author: David J. Bailey
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2014-12-01
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1847799345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book makes an important contribution to the existing literature on European social democracy in the wake of the 2008 financial crash and ensuing recession. It assesses how social democratic parties have responded, at the national as well as at the European Union level. A wide range of leading political scientists provide the reader with an in-depth understanding of the prospects for social democracy in the midst of an unprecedented crisis for neoliberalism. The book draws together some of the most well-known and prestigious scholars of social democracy and social democratic parties, along with a number of impressive new scholars in the field, to present a compelling and up to date analysis of social democratic fortunes in the contemporary period. It benefits from an analysis of social democratic parties’ experiences in 6 different countries – the UK, Sweden, Germany, France, Spain and Greece – along with a number of chapters on the fate of social democracy in the institutions of the EU.
Author: Olaf Cramme
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-02-28
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0857730711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOlaf Cramme is Director of Policy Network and a Visiting Fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics. Previously, he worked as a Parliamentary Researcher at the Houses of Parliament. Patrick Diamond is Senior Research Fellow at Policy Network. He is also a Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford. He was formerly Head of Policy Planning in 10 Downing Street and Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister.
Author: Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-09-13
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 1136926518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat kind of Europe do social democratic parties prefer? What is the origin of their preferences? Are they shaped by interests, institutions or ideas? If so, how? Why do social democratic political parties respond differently to the crucial question of the future of the European Union? While many social democratic parties initially opposed European integration either in principle or because of the form it took, gradually they came to lend their full, though often critical, support to it. Despite this evolution, important differences between them have remained. This book examines the preferences of social democratic parties in Germany, France, the UK, Sweden and Greece towards European integration, in comparative perspective. Using a variety of sources, including interviews with key party officials, the contributors explore what kind of Europe these parties want, and seek to explain the formation and evolution of these preferences over time. They examine the interplay of national peculiarities and cross-national factors and their impact on preferences on European integration. In addition to highlighting the role of party leaders, they reveal that, far from being united on European integration, these parties disagree with each other in part because they have retreated – to varying degrees – from key social democratic principles. Making an important contribution to the scholarship on preference formation and the research that links the European Union with the nation state, it will be of interest to students and scholars of the EU, comparative politics and political parties.
Author: Simon Lightfoot
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780415348034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncluding case studies on the role the Party of European Socialists (PES) played during the Amsterdam and Nice Treaty negotiations, this book assesses how successful the PES has been in the development of a real European socialist party.
