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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 corresponding dilution of traditional social democratic commitments. The book looks at the impact of the change in economic conditions on social democracy in general, before examining the specific cases of Germany, Sweden and Australia. It examines the ideological crisis that engulfed social democracy. The book also looks at the post-1970 development of social policy, its fiscal implications and economic consequences in three European countries. It considers the evolution of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from its re-emergence as a significant political force during the 1970s until the present day under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. The book also examines the evolution of the Swedish model in conjunction with social democratic reformism and the party's relations to the union movement. It explores the latest debate about what the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) stands for. The SPD became the role model for programmatic modernisation for the European centre-left. The book considers how British socialist and social democratic thought from the late nineteenth century to the present has treated the objective of helping people to fulfil their potential, talents and ambitions. It aims to contribute 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.
capacity of social democratic parties to undertake meaningful political change. According to Moschonas, although attachment to the cause of European integration in the 1980s and 1990s enabled social democratic parties to win new support from the educated middle class, it also consolidated and deepened the decomposition of the traditional political identity of the moderate left. Part III of the book, ‘Resources for rethinking’, aims to contribute to a broader conversation about the future of social democracy by considering ways in which the political thought of ‘third way
-first-century social and economic conditions. Turning to the wide-ranging form of political thought known as anarchism, we discuss anarchist views of human nature, the state, liberty and equality, and economic life. The chapter ends with a critique of anarchism and some thoughts as to its relevance to modern politics. POINTS TO CONSIDER Is Marxism correct in identifying class as the most important form of
(and in particular between the British and American cases), I will nonetheless maintain that their rhetorical justification exhibited certain illuminating similarities.2 I must stress at the outset that this chapter is expressly interpretive rather than quantitative in its approach. It identifies the ideological structure and animating political strategy of redistributive political discourse through the methods of textual analysis familiar to scholars of political thought.3 Implicit in this approach is the assumption that, while the scrutiny of principles of social
derives from the fact that two different traditions of political thought are at work in the public–private distinction. The complexity does not stop there, however, for liberal discourses also frequently invoke a romantic tradition as well. Will Kymlicka suggests that there are two different conceptions of the public–private distinction at work within liberalism: the state–civil society distinction and the social
/15/03 2:10 PM Page 51 MAIN POLITICAL INFLUENCES 51 21 Margaret Cole, The Story of Fabian Socialism (London: Heinemann, 1961), pp. 27–30. 22 G. Bernard Shaw, et al., Fabian Essays in Socialism (London: Walter Scott, 1889), pp. 34–5. 23 Geoffrey Foote, The Labour Party’s Political Thought (New York: St Martin’s Press, 3rd edn, 1997), p. 26. 24 Cole, Story of Fabian Socialism, p. 85. 25 G. Bernard Shaw, ed., Fabianism and the Empire: A Manifesto by the Fabian Society (London: Fabian Society, 1900), pp. 3 and 44–6, held in the University of Leeds Library, Brotherton
trialism within the Habsburg monarchy eluded Tuœman, and he felt adequately qualified to situate Radiç the pacifist as having the same yearning as Paveliç the fascist murderer, despite the fact that Radiç’s successor, Vladko Maïek had been imprisoned by the Usta°a at the Jasenovac death camp. None of this was problematic for Tuœman. All Croats could rally behind Franjoism, the argument went, because it encompassed every strand of Croatian political thought. Tuœman attempted to unify the Croatian people by situating them alongside an ‘other’, the Serbs. He contended that
renewal of the left 253 Broadly speaking, two key factors seem to lie behind this trend. One is the extraordinary wave of scholarly work, building since the 1970s and now a veritable academic ‘industry’, that has sought to recover a republican intellectual heritage and develop it for contemporary purposes. Historians inspired by the pioneering work of Quentin Skinner and J. G. A. Pocock have brought to light a tradition of political thought that had hitherto been somewhat hidden from view, a tradition of civic republican ideas that, drawing on classical sources, was
political science approach which looks at party systems, organisations, political institutions or elections; but it is also not simply an analysis of ideas or policy, although these are discussed. The book includes contributions from people who work and research in departments of business studies, government and politics, sociology, social policy, and social and political thought
Foreign Policy and the Union of Democratic Control 1914–1918 (Hull: University of Hull Press, 1996). 38 Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald, p. 184. 39 UDC, The Morrow of War, p. 9. 40 H. N. Brailsford, The Origins of the Great War (London: UDC, pamphlet no. 4, 1914), p. 18. 41 UDC, The Morrow of War, p. 4. 42 Arthur Ponsonby, Parliament and Foreign Policy (London: UDC, pamphlet no. 5, 1914), p. 1. 43 Bertrand Russell, War, the Offspring of Fear (London: UDC, pamphlet no. 3, 1914), p. 12. 44 R. H. S. Crossman, ‘British political thought in the European Tradition’, in J. P. Mayer