In Search of Social Democracy : Responses to Crisis and Modernisation

Abstract

List of tables List of figures Contributors Introduction - John Callaghan, Nina Fishman, Ben Jackson, Martin McIvor Part I: After the Golden Age - social democracy in crisis 1. Explanations for the neo-liberal direction of social democracy: Germany, Sweden and Australia compared - Ashley Lavelle 2. Fiscal policies, social spending and economic performance in France, Germany and the UK Since 1970 - Norman Flynn 3. 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 4. The political economy of French social democratic economic policy autonomy, 1997-2002: credibility, dirigisme and globalisation - Ben Clift 5. The Spanish Workers' Party: continuity, innovation and renewal - Paul Kennedy 6. A mew Swedish model? Swedish social democracy at the crossroads - Dimitris Tsarouhas 7. The modernisation of German social democracy? Towards a Third Way and back - Hartwig Pautz 8. The meaning of modernisation: New Labour and public sector reform - Eric Shaw 9. Reformism in a 'conservative' system: the European Union and social democratic identity - Gerassimos Moschonas Part III: Resources for rethinking 10. 'Unlocking the talent of every citizen': debates about potential and ambition in British socialist thought - Jeremy Nuttall 11. The continuing relevance of Croslandite social democracy - Kevin Hickson 12. The rhetoric of redistribution - Ben Jackson. 13. Republicanism, socialism and the renewal of the left - Martin McIvor 14. Economic democracy instead of more capitalism: core historical concepts reconsidered - Adrian Zimmermann 15. Afterword - Nina Fishman Index -- .