LEADER 03918nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910778568403321 005 20230912230654.0 010 $a0-674-02084-7 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674020849 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805696 035 $a(OCoLC)648278289 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10318522 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000247408 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11208566 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000247408 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10195408 035 $a(PQKB)10499977 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300525 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300525 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10318522 035 $a(OCoLC)923111273 035 $a(DE-B1597)584855 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674020849 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805696 100 $a19971106d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe social democratic moment $eideas and politics in the making of interwar Europe /$fSheri Berman 210 1$aCambridge, Mass. :$cHarvard University Press,$d1998. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) 300 $aBased on author's dissertation, Harvard University. 311 0 $a0-674-44261-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-299) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tCHAPTER 1 Reexamining Interwar Social Democracy --$tCHAPTER 2 Evaluating the Role of Ideas --$tCHAPTER 3 Sweden?s Political Development and the Programmatic Beliefs of the SAP --$tCHAPTER 4 Germany?s Political Development and the Programmatic Beliefs of the SPD --$tCHAPTER 5 Sweden?s Path to Democracy --$tCHAPTER 6 Germany?s Path to Democracy --$tCHAPTER 7 The Origins of Social Democratic Hegemony --$tCHAPTER 8 The Collapse of German Democracy --$tCHAPTER 9 Understanding Interwar Social Democracy --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aSocialism$zSweden$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSocialism$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aSocialism$xHistory 615 0$aSocialism$xHistory 676 $a320.5/315/094/09041 700 $aBerman$b Sheri$f1965-$01518747 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778568403321 996 $aThe social democratic moment$93756490 997 $aUNINA