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The Rise and Fall of Social Democracy, 1918–2017 Open
We describe the electoral history of one of Europe’s most successful party families over the past 100 years in 31 countries. With a unique and newly collected dataset of national election results and a large number of economic and social v…
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The missing left? Economic crisis and the programmatic response of social democratic parties in Europe Open
How have social democratic parties responded to the recent economic crisis? For many observers, the Great Recession and the prevalence of austerity in response to it have contributed to a crisis of social democracy in Europe. This article …
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The Crisis of German Social Democracy Revisited Open
This article analyses the dramatic electoral decline of German social democracy since 2003. It argues that the SPD 's decision, under the leadership of former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, to engage in welfare state retrenchment and labour …
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The Hungarian Patient: Social Opposition to an Illiberal Democracy Open
This book presents compelling essays by leading Hungarian and foreign authors on the variety of social movements and the parties that seek influence and power in Hungary, a country mired in deep political crisis
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Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class Open
This open access book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. Relying on different indicators, it demonstrates an important transformation in the class basis of socia…
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Responsive to whom? A comparison of the Mitterrand and Hollande presidencies Open
This article investigates the responsiveness of the Parti socialiste towards specific social groups under the Hollande and Mitterrand presidencies. It thereby contributes to the discussion on the changing representativeness of social democ…
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What Explains the Electoral Crisis of Social Democracy? A Systematic Review of the Literature Open
While there are some signs of revitalization, social democracy has witnessed a deep electoral crisis over the last decades. The causes for the decline of social democratic parties are highly contested among researchers. This article provid…
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The Real Lessons of the Interwar Years Open
Several observers have recently invoked interwar political developments to make the case that even established democracies are fragile and vulnerable to breakdown. However, the real lesson of the interwar period is that even crises as deva…
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Party decline or social transformation? Economic, institutional and sociological change and the rise of anti-political-establishment parties in Western Europe Open
The rise in support for anti-political-establishment parties (APEp), especially since the beginning of the 2008 Great Recession, has put democracy in peril. Some scholars have warned us about the negative implications the recent rise of AP…
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Disproved or vindicated? Stein Rokkan’s ‘impossibility theorem’ on welfare democracy and European integration Open
In the mid-1970s, the great Norwegian scholar Stein Rokkan argued that the consolidation of the national welfare state was going to set definite limits to European integration. While the impetuous strengthening of the latter – from Maastri…
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Big dreams and small steps: comparative perspectives on the social movement struggle for democracy in Serbia and North Macedonia Open
This paper provides a comparative analysis of social movements’
\ncharacteristics and capacities to struggle against illiberal tendencies
\nand incite political change in Serbia and North Macedonia. First, we
\ndiscuss the illiberal elemen…
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Beyond Social Democracy Open
Beyond Social Democracy examines the electoral decline of social democratic parties and how distinctive strategic moves might enable them to salvage different segments of their former electoral coalitions. Social democratic decline, howeve…
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Social Democracy and the Problem of Equality: Economic Analysis and Political Argument in the United Kingdom Open
In the context of the recent spread of public and academic concern with economic inequality, this paper examines the evolution of British social democratic thinking about inequality, linking this evolution to the changing debates within ec…
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When do social democratic parties unite over tough immigration policy? Open
Attempting to reconcile the diverse immigration policy demands of the ‘old’ working class and the ‘new’ middle class, social democratic parties struggle to take a clear position on immigration policy. Adopting more restrictive policies is …
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Urban renewal policies in the Netherlands in an era of changing welfare regimes Open
In The Netherlands, post-war urban renewal policies have emerged under the influence of various welfare regimes. Corporatist and social democratic regimes promoted social justice, social cohesion, inclusion and redistribution of income; ur…
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The PSOE’s deliberation and democratic innovations in turbulent times for the social democracy Open
In the midst of the great recession, the Spanish Socialists Worker's Party (PSOE) lost the Government and experienced a process of instability while trying to reconnect with its electorate. The party's strategic response was embracing high…
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Trajectories of social democracy in the Baltic countries: choices and constraints Open
This article focuses on social democratic parties in the Baltic states. The evolution of the democratic left in these countries deviates from more researched cases of social democratic parties in the Visegrád countries. Although the Lithua…
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Pragmatism, social inquiry and the method of democracy Open
Many philosophers have proposed that the tradition of philosophical pragmatism offers a unique perspective on democracy. This chapter discusses one pragmatist view of democracy and democratic citizenship that is grounded in John Dewey's vi…
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Democracy and Reform in the Middle East and Asia: Social Protest and Authoritarian Rule after the Arab Spring Open
"Democracy and Reform in the Middle East and Asia: Social Protest and Authoritarian Rule after the Arab Spring." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 45(5), pp. 865–866
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Austerity and constitutionalizing structural reform of labour in the European Union Open
This article traces how, within a context of authoritarian neoliberalism, the European Union (EU)’s constitutionalization of key economic policy areas locks in place austerity policies that impose major costs on working people while simult…
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Democracy and Argument: Tracking Truth in Complex Social Decisions Open
A committee has to address a complex question, the answer to which requires answering several sub-questions. Two different voting procedures can be used. On one procedure, the committee members vote on each sub-question and the voting resu…
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The implosion of radical right populism and the path forward for social democracy: Evidence from the 2019 Danish national election Open
The collapse of the Danish People's Party (DPP) was pivotal for the Danish 2019 election since a substantial bloc of their previous voters moved to the Social Democratic Party (SDP). This provides an interesting countermovement to the tren…
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Social work, neoliberalism and authoritarianism: an analysis of the policy document ‘Regulating social workers’ Open
This discussion examines the complexity of the social work profession in the neoliberal era. Government austerity policies and a market and corporate neoliberal state have effectively trapped social work in an ideology that increasingly fu…
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The ‘Idea of Career’ and ‘A Welfare State of Mind’ Open
While they are independent states, the Nordic countries have common features. As well as democracy and a mixed economy, a key feature is their social democratic welfare states, often referred to as the 'Nordic model' where equality and uni…
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"European Philanthropic Behavior Patterns: Charitable Giving, Non-Profit and Welfare Regimes in the European Union " Open
The connection that links patterns of philanthropic behavior with the organization of state delivery of welfare and the development of civil society has been theorized recently. Off this line of thought we refer to the Esping-Andersen’s w…
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Bibliographical note Open
This book considers the underlying causes of the end of social democracy's golden age. It argues that the cross-national trend in social democratic parties since the 1970s has been towards an accommodation with neo-liberalism and a corresp…
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Changing Paradigms: The Emergence of the Autism/Neurodiversity Manifesto Open
In 2016 in the Black-E arts centre in Liverpool, UK the Labour Party Autism/Neurodiversity Manifesto launched with the support of activists such as Monique Craine, and leading Members of Parliament of the UK’s Labour Party. The Manifesto d…
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Marxism before Marxism: Nikolaj Sieber and the birth of Russian social-democracy Open
The Swiss-Russian economist Nikolaj Sieber was one of the first who wrote about Marx in Russia. In this article we reconstruct the development of his thought by mobilising evidence about the intellectual and political context he lived in. …
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Illiberal Democracy in the Comparative Analysis of Hungary and Poland Open
The article analyzes the concept of illiberal democracy exemplified by two case studies of Hungary and Poland. The thesis of the paper states that their political systems showed signs of immaturity and institutional weakness of liberal dem…
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Modern Welfare State and Social Democracy: Interdependence and Policy Importance Open
Social democratic parties during the early stages of their development have accepted capitalism and have considered the welfare state as a tool in order to indirectly achieve the goals of social justice and cohesion.In the first half of th…