Social Democracy After the Cold War

✍ Scribed by Bryan Evans (editor)

• Publisher: Athabasca University Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 340
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Offering a comparative look at social democratic experience since the Cold War, the volume examines countries where social democracy has long been an influential political force – Sweden, Germany, Britain, and Australia – while also considering the history of Canada’s NDP and the emergence of New Left parties in Germany and the province of Québec. The case studies point to a social democracy that has confirmed its rupture with the postwar order and its role as the primary political representative of workingclass interests. Once marked by redistributive and egalitarian policy perspectives, social democracy has, the book argues, assumed a new role – that of a modernizing force advancing the neoliberal cause.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter
Dedication
Table of Contents
Introduction: The New Social Democracy / Bryan Evans
It’s the Economy, Stupid! Theoretical Reflections on Third Way Social Democracy / Ingo Schmidt
From Protest Movement to Neoliberal Management: Canada’s New Democratic Party in the Era of Permanent Austerity / Bryan Evans
American Social Democracy: Exceptional but Otherwise Familiar / Herman Rosenfeld
The British Labour Party: In Search of Identity Between Labour and Parliament / Byron Sheldrick
Social Democratic Parties and Unions in a Globalized World: The Australian Experience / Dennis Woodward
Swedish Social Democracy After the Cold War: Whatever Happened to the Movement? / Kjell Östberg
The Social Democratic Party in Germany: Caught Between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Rise of The Left / Ingo Schmidt
The Québec Turn / Roger Rashi
References
Contributors
Index