LEADER 05875oam 22006374a 450 001 996552360403316 005 20230621140722.0 010 $a1-5261-2509-9 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526125095 035 $a(CKB)3800000000216113 035 $a(OCoLC)1112229071 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73514 035 $a(OCoLC)987379695 035 $a(ScCtBLL)86aa33fb-70a6-4790-a7bc-52cab9600d1d 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28160 035 $a(DE-B1597)659553 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526125095 035 $a(EXLCZ)993800000000216113 100 $a20190816e20192009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aIn Search of Social Democracy$eResponses to Crisis and Modernisation /$fedited by John Callaghan [and 3 others] 210 $aManchester$cManchester University Press$d2009 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2019 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 305 pages) $cillustrations; digital, PDF file(s) 311 $a0-7190-7920-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apart I. After the golden age : social democracy in crisis. Explanations for the neo-liberal direction of social democracy : Germany, Sweden and Australia compared / Ashley Lavelle -- Fiscal policies, social spending and economic performance in France, Germany and the UK since 1970 / Norman Flynn -- From The future of socialism (1956) to a future without socialism? The crisis of British social democratic political economy / Noel Thompson -- part II. Responses to the crisis : the Third Way and other revisions. The political economy of French social democratic economic policy autonomy, 1997-2002 : credibility, dirigisme and globalisation / Ben Clift -- The Spanish Socialist Worker's Party : continuity, innovation and renewal / Paul Kennedy -- A new Swedish model? Swedish social democracy at the crossroads / Dimitris Tsarouhas -- The modernisation of German social democracy : towards a third way and back? / Hartwig Pautz -- The meaning of modernisation : New Labour and public sector reform / Eric Shaw -- Reformism in a 'conservative' system : the European Union and social democratic identity / Gerassimos Moschonas -- part III. Resources for rethinking. Unlocking the talent of every citizen : debates about potential and ambition in British socialist thought / Jeremy Nuttall -- The continuing relevance of Croslandite social democracy / Kevin Hickson -- The rhetoric of redistribution / Ben Jackson -- Republicanism, socialism and the renewal of the left / Martin McIvor -- Economic democracy instead of more capitalism : core historical concepts reconsidered / Adrian Zimmermann -- Afterward / Nina Fishman. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aDemocracy$zEurope, Western 606 $aSocialism$zEurope, Western 607 $aEurope, Western$xPolitics and government 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aPolitical Science 610 $aDemocracy 610 $aPolitics 610 $aGovernment 610 $aPolitical Ideologies 610 $aSociety 610 $aSocial Sciences 610 $aEuropean Union 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aSocialism 676 $a320.5315 700 $aCallaghan$b John$4edt$0800775 702 $aCallaghan$b John$g(John T.), 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996552360403316 996 $aIn Search of Social Democracy$93570672 997 $aUNISA