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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: R. Ladrech
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1999-01-13
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 023037414X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a concise and accessible coverage of the historical background, the organization and policies of the fifteen social democratic parties in the European Union with a focus on the 1945-1990s period. It combines an updated study of the evolution of each party's ideology, sociology and policies, with attention also to the impact of European integration on the fortunes of social democratic forces. The book can be used as a reference text by academics, students and political practitioners and contains contact details and important reference information for each party.
Author: Line Rennwald
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-07-21
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 3030462390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. Relying on different indicators, it demonstrates an important transformation in the class basis of social democracy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the working-class vote is strongly fragmented and social democratic parties face competition on multiple fronts for their core electorate – and not only from radical right parties. Starting from a reflection on ‘working-class parties’ and using a sophisticated class schema, the book paints a nuanced and diversified picture of the trajectory of social democracy that goes beyond a simple shift from working-class to middle-class parties. Following a detailed description, the book reviews possible explanations of workers' new voting patterns and emphasizes the crucial changes in parties' ideologies. It closes with a discussion on the role of the working class in social democracy's future electoral strategies.
Author: Wolfgang Merkel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-03-31
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1134071787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobalization, European integration, and social change have devaluated traditional social democratic policy instruments. This book compares and explores how social democratic governments have had to adapt and whether they have successfully managed to uphold old social democratic goals and values in the light of these challenges. This volume examines the policy measures of social democratic parties in government in a comparative framework. The authors focus on traditional social democratic goals and tools, in particular, fiscal, employment, and social policy, in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark. They identify three policy patterns in social democratic governments: traditional, modernized, and liberalized social democracy and provide a comparative account of the explanatory power of the national context for policy adopted by social democratic parties. Finally, the extent to which social democratic parties have been able to use the European Union as a political space for social democratic governance and policy-making is examined. Social Democracy in Power will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, comparative politics, European studies and public policy.
Author: John Callaghan
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first work to reflect in detail on the Left's experiences in government in the 1990s and early twenty-first century.
Author: Isabelle Hertner
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781526120335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates how the British Labour Party, the French Socialist Party (PS), and the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) deal with the European Union (EU).
Author: David J. Bailey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-05-19
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1135268754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting case studies from the UK, France, Sweden, Spain, Italy, and the transnational Party of European Socialists, this text provides a theoretically innovative explanation for the ‘new’ social democratic turn to Europe. It will be of interest to postgraduate students and academics studying/researching social democratic parties.
Author: Carl E. Schorske
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1955
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780674351257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo political parties of present-day Germany are separated by a wider gulf than the two parties of labor, one democratic and reformist, the other totalitarian and socialist-revolutionary. Social Democrats and Communists today face each other as bitter political enemies across the front lines of the Cold War; yet they share a common origin in the Social Democratic Party of Imperial Germany. How did they come to go separate ways? By what process did the old party break apart? How did the prewar party prepare the ground for the dissolution of the labor movement in World War I, and for the subsequent extension of Leninism into Germany? To answer these questions is the purpose of Carl Schorske's study.
Author: Svein S Andersen
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1996-02-27
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780761951131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking as its starting point the major issues of democracy which are the ongoing concerns of every liberal Western political system, this volume offers a wide-ranging review of democracy in the European Union. It treats the EU as a new type of political system within the tradition of parliamentary democracies, a system which is neither federal nor intergovernmental, and which consequently has unique problems of how to handle democratic requirements. Part One deals with the two major challenges of interest articulation in the EU, political parties and lobbying. The second part discusses how democracy becomes the key element in the linkage between the EU and its member states, focusing on France, Italy and Belgium where the r
Author: Jean-Michel de Waele
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 1137293802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe nature of social democracy in the countries of the European Union is more significant and better understood than is indicated by the available literature. This thought-provoking handbook aims to redress this disparity by bringing together Political scientists from across Europe to provide a definitive collection on social democracy in the EU.
