Author : Sheri Berman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 0974042951
Understanding Social Democracy
Sheri Berman
Understanding Social Democracy
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After Social Democracy
John Gray
Author : John Gray
Publisher : Demos
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9781898309529
After Social Democracy by John Gray Pdf
Argues that in the current context of global economic and technological developments social democracy has become obsolete. Suggests that a 'communitarian liberalism' is a natural successor to both neoliberalism and social democracy.
The Theory of Social Democracy
Thomas Meyer
Author : Thomas Meyer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745654614
The Theory of Social Democracy by Thomas Meyer Pdf
The ascendancy of neo-liberalism in different parts of the world has put social democracy on the defensive. Its adherents lack a clear rationale for their policies. Yet a justification for social democracy is implicit in the United Nations Covenants on Human Rights, ratified by most of the worlds countries. The covenants commit all nations to guarantee that their citizens shall enjoy the traditional formal rights; but they likewise pledge governments to make those rights meaningful in the real world by providing social security and cultural recognition to every person. This new book provides a systematic defence of social democracy for our contemporary global age. The authors argue that the claims to legitimation implicit in democratic theory can be honored only by social democracy; libertarian democracies are defective in failing to protect their citizens adequately against social, economic, and environmental risks that only collective action can obviate. Ultimately, social democracy provides both a fairer and more stable social order. But can social democracy survive in a world characterized by pervasive processes of globalization? This book asserts that globalization need not undermine social democracy if it is harnessed by international associations and leavened by principles of cultural respect, toleration, and enlightenment. The structures of social democracy must, in short, be adapted to the exigencies of globalization, as has already occurred in countries with the most successful social-democratic practices.
Jean Jaurès
Geoffrey Kurtz
Author : Geoffrey Kurtz
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271065823
Jean Jaurès by Geoffrey Kurtz Pdf
Jean Jaurès was a towering intellectual and political leader of the democratic Left at the turn of the twentieth century, but he is little remembered today outside of France, and his contributions to political thought are little studied anywhere. In Jean Jaurès: The Inner Life of Social Democracy, Geoffrey Kurtz introduces Jaurès to an American audience. The parliamentary and philosophical leader of French socialism from the 1890s until his assassination in 1914, Jaurès was the only major socialist leader of his generation who was educated as a political philosopher. As he championed the reformist method that would come to be called social democracy, he sought to understand the inner life of a political tradition that accepts its own imperfection. Jaurès's call to sustain the tension between the ideal and the real resonates today. In addition to recovering the questions asked by the first generation of social democrats, Kurtz’s aim in this book is to reconstruct Jaurès’s political thought in light of current theoretical and political debates. To achieve this, he gives readings of several of Jaurès’s major writings and speeches, spanning work from his early adulthood to the final years of his life, paying attention to not just what Jaurès is saying, but how he says it.
The Social Democratic Moment
Sheri BERMAN,Sheri Berman
Author : Sheri BERMAN,Sheri Berman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674020849
The Social Democratic Moment by Sheri BERMAN,Sheri Berman Pdf
In addition to revising our view of the interwar period and the building of European democracies, this book cuts against the grain of most current theorizing in political science by explicitly discussing when and how ideas influence political behavior. Even though German and Swedish Social Democrats belonged to the same transnational political movement and faced similar political and social conditions in their respective countries before and after World War I, they responded very differently to the challenges of democratization and the Great Depression--with crucial consequences for the fates of their countries and the world at large. Explaining why these two social democratic parties acted so differently is the primary task of this book. Berman's answer is that they had very different ideas about politics and economics--what she calls their programmatic beliefs. The Swedish Social Democrats placed themselves at the forefront of the drive for democratization; a decade later they responded to the Depression with a bold new economic program and used it to build a long period of political hegemony. The German Social Democrats, on the other hand, had democracy thrust upon them and then dithered when faced with economic crisis; their haplessness cleared the way for a bolder and more skillful political actor--Adolf Hitler. This provocative book will be of interest to anyone concerned with twentieth-century European history, the transition to democracy problem, or the role of ideas in politics.
Foundations of Social Democracy
Tobias Gombert
Author : Tobias Gombert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 395861874X
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The Primacy of Politics
Sheri Berman
Author : Sheri Berman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139457590
The Primacy of Politics by Sheri Berman Pdf
Political history in the industrial world has indeed ended, argues this pioneering study, but the winner has been social democracy - an ideology and political movement that has been as influential as it has been misunderstood. Berman looks at the history of social democracy from its origins in the late nineteenth century to today and shows how it beat out competitors such as classical liberalism, orthodox Marxism, and its cousins, Fascism and National Socialism by solving the central challenge of modern politics - reconciling the competing needs of capitalism and democracy. Bursting on to the scene in the interwar years, the social democratic model spread across Europe after the Second World War and formed the basis of the postwar settlement. This is a study of European social democracy that rewrites the intellectual and political history of the modern era while putting contemporary debates about globalization in their proper intellectual and historical context.
Social Democracy in the Global Periphery
Richard Sandbrook,Marc Edelman,Patrick Heller,Judith Teichman
Author : Richard Sandbrook,Marc Edelman,Patrick Heller,Judith Teichman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139460910
Social Democracy in the Global Periphery by Richard Sandbrook,Marc Edelman,Patrick Heller,Judith Teichman Pdf
Social Democracy in the Global Periphery focuses on social-democratic regimes in the developing world that have, to varying degrees, reconciled the needs of achieving growth through globalized markets with extensions of political, social and economic rights. The authors show that opportunities exist to achieve significant social progress, despite a global economic order that favours core industrial countries. Their findings derive from a comparative analysis of four exemplary cases: Kerala (India), Costa Rica, Mauritius and Chile (since 1990). Though unusual, the social and political conditions from which these developing-world social democracies arose are not unique; indeed, pragmatic and proactive social-democratic movements helped create these favourable conditions. The four exemplars have preserved or even improved their social achievements since neoliberalism emerged hegemonic in the 1980s. This demonstrates that certain social-democratic policies and practices - guided by a democratic developmental state - can enhance a national economy's global competitiveness.
In search of social democracy
John Callaghan,Nina Fishman,Ben Jackson,Martin McIvor
Author : John Callaghan,Nina Fishman,Ben Jackson,Martin McIvor
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781526125095
In search of social democracy by John Callaghan,Nina Fishman,Ben Jackson,Martin McIvor Pdf
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. 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 deindustrialisation. In response, a new bout of ideological revisionism consumed social democratic parties. But did this revisionism simply amount to a neo-liberalisation of the Left or did it propose a recognisably social democratic agenda? Were these ideological adaptations the only feasible ones or were there other forms of modernisation that might have yielded greater strategic dividends for the Left? Why did some social democratic parties feel it necessary to take their revisionism much further than others? In search of social democracy brings together prominent scholars of social democracy to address these questions. Focusing on the social democratic heartland of Western Europe (although Australia and the United States also figure in the analysis), it gives the first detailed assessment of how the new social democratic revisionism has fared in government. The book begins by considering the underlying causes of the end of social democracy’s golden age and the magnitude of the challenges faced by social democratic parties after the 1970s. It then proceeds to examine detailed case studies of how particular social democratic parties responded to this changed political terrain. Finally, it contributes to a broader conversation about the future of social democracy by considering ways in which the political thought of ‘third way’ social democracy might be radicalised for the twenty-first century. The contributors offer a variety of perspectives – some are sceptical of social democracy’s prospects, others more sanguine; some supportive of the performance of social democratic parties in government, others bitingly critical. But they are united by the conviction that the themes addressed in this book are crucial to understanding the current politics of the industrialised world and, in particular, to determining the feasibility of more egalitarian and democratic social outcomes than have been possible so far in the era of neo-liberalism.
Social Democracy Explained
John Spargo
Author : John Spargo
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1330872053
Social Democracy Explained by John Spargo Pdf
Excerpt from Social Democracy Explained: Theories and Tactics, of Modern Socialism This volume is an attempt to state in simple, popular, and untechnical language the essentials of the Socialism of the Marxian school. I have tried to present a clear and comprehensive view not only of the philosophical and economic theories of Socialism, but of the principles underlying the policies of the Socialist movement. In justice to the reader as well as to the writer, it should be stated that these pages were written prior to the outbreak of the European war. I was at the time a member of the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, and by invitation of the General Committee of the party organization in New York City I delivered a course of ten lectures which were designed to assist in the education of the party membership. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Social Democracy in the Making
Gary Dorrien
Author : Gary Dorrien
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300244991
Social Democracy in the Making by Gary Dorrien Pdf
An expansive and ambitious intellectual history of democratic socialism from one of the world’s leading intellectual historians and social ethicists The fallout from twenty years of neoliberal economic globalism has sparked a surge of interest in the old idea of democratic socialism—a democracy in which the people control the economy and government, no group dominates any other, and every citizen is free, equal, and included. With a focus on the intertwined legacies of Christian socialism and Social Democratic politics in Britain and Germany, this book traces the story of democratic socialism from its birth in the nineteenth century through the mid-1960s. Examining the tenets on which the movement was founded and how it adapted to different cultural, religious, and economic contexts from its beginnings through the social and political traumas of the twentieth century, Gary Dorrien reminds us that Christian socialism paved the way for all liberation theologies that make the struggles of oppressed peoples the subject of redemption. He argues for a decentralized economic democracy and anti-imperial internationalism.
Social Democracy
Hans Keman
Author : Hans Keman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351679428
Social Democracy by Hans Keman Pdf
5.4 Office- and policy-seeking performance of Social Democracy -- 5.5 The use of public powers through government by Social Democracy -- 6 The use of public powers: Social Democratic policy formation and policy performance -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The interdependence between state and society: intervention and care -- 6.3 The Dual Welfare State as a policy profile of Social Democracy -- 6.4 Does Social Democratic policy formation matter? -- 6.5 Towards a Social Democratic society? -- 7 Searching for a new direction: Third Ways, Europe and globalisation -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Globalisation, European integration and national welfare -- 7.3 A new Social Democratic model? From Dual Welfare State to social investment state -- 7.4 Social Democratic programmatic change: from Left to Right? -- 7.5 Maintaining power resources of Social Democracy: votes or office? -- 7.6 The policy performance of the 'new' Social Democracy -- 7.7 Global change and flexible adjustments: Social Democracy in flux -- 8 Varieties of Social Democracy: pathways to power and mission performance -- 8.1 Epitome: Social Democracy - unity and diversity and development -- 8.2 Democratisation and the development of Social Democratic power resources -- 8.3 Ideological change and its ramifications for the Social Democratic project and model -- 8.4 Gaining political powers and party control to develop the Dual Welfare State -- 8.5 From diversity to mainstreaming: Social Democracy moving into the 21st century -- Appendix -- Index.
Sweden
Henry Milner
Author : Henry Milner
Publisher : Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 019827856X
Sweden by Henry Milner Pdf
For nearly two generations, social commentators and scholars have seen in Sweden a mirror of their own hopes and fears for the future. Proponents of economic and social democracy have been attracted by Sweden's egalitarian policies, while libertarians have expressed alarm at its corporatismand statism. In this account of Sweden's successful individual rights and collective responsibility, and its balance between equitable distribution and economic efficiency, Henry Milner portrays social democracy as a way of life. He sees it as a functioning social system embodying the principlesof economic well-being, fair remuneration for work, social solidarity, democracy, participation, access to information, and respect for the environment in the way its members choose to act towards each other and live their lives.
Rethinking European Social Democracy and Socialism
Alan Granadino,Stefan Nygård,Peter Stadius
Author : Alan Granadino,Stefan Nygård,Peter Stadius
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 1032020091
Rethinking European Social Democracy and Socialism by Alan Granadino,Stefan Nygård,Peter Stadius Pdf
With a combined focus on social democrats in Northern and Southern Europe, this book crucially broadens our understanding of the transformation of European social democracy from the mid-1970s to the early-1990s. In doing so, it revisits the transformation of this ideological family at the end of the Cold War, and before the launch of Third Way politics, and examines the dynamics and power relations at play among European social democratic parties in a context of nascent globalisation. The chronological, methodological and geographical approaches adopted allow for a more nuanced narrative of change for European social democracy than the hitherto dominant centric perspective. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of social democracy, the European Centre-left, political parties, ideologies and more broadly to comparative politics and European politics and history. The Introduction chapter of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Think-Tanks, Social Democracy and Social Policy
H. Pautz
Author : H. Pautz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230368545
Think-Tanks, Social Democracy and Social Policy by H. Pautz Pdf
An analysis of think-tanks in Britain and Germany and their role in the re-making of the British Labour party and Germany's Social Democrats as 'Third Way' parties. The part that think-tanks played in the creation of the the 'workfare state' in the 1990s and 2000s is also explored in this book.
