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This book, a collection of essays by some of Britain's leading academics, public intellectuals and political practitioners, seeks to engage with the 'big picture' of British social democracy, both historical and contemporary, and point to grounds for greater optimism for its future prospects.
List of contents
1 Making social democrats - Jeremy Nuttall and Hans Schattle
Part I: Progressive dilemmas: the historical long view
2 Social democracy and the people - Jeremy Nuttall
3 British liberalism in search of ideological recalibration - Michael Freeden
4 A labour of Sisyphus: the quest for a great Labour Party - Andrew Gamble
Part II: Citizenship, republicanism and democracy
5 Globalisation, the breaking and re-making of social democratic citizenship - Hans Schattle
6 A Marquandian moment? The civic republican political theory of David Marquand - Stuart White
7 A union of hearts? Republican social democracy and Scottish nationalism - Ben Jackson
Part III: The principled society: mindsets and values
8 The politics of neighbourliness: social democracy on the home front in Britain during the Second World War - Clare Griffiths
9 As if: contestation, care and the 'temper of the country' - Gideon Calder
10 Principles and the progressive alliance in a networked society: what we can learn from
Marquandism in the making and unmaking of social democrats - Neal Lawson
11 Progressivism to democratic socialism: the special case of Dr Christopher Addison -
Kenneth O. Morgan
Part IV: Prospects, reflections and realities
12 Democracy and social democracy - Tony Wright
13 Social democracy before and after the EU referendum - Lord David Owen
14 From Bodmin Moor to Cardiff Bay: a European education? - David Marquand
15 David Marquand and liberal social democracy - Will Hutton
16 Not just any social democracy: 'Marquandism' and the primacy of pluralism and republicanism - Hans Schattle and Jeremy Nuttall
About the author
Hans Schattle is Professor of Political Science at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea
Jeremy Nuttall is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Kingston University
Summary
This book, a collection of essays by some of Britain’s leading academics, public intellectuals and political practitioners, seeks to engage with the ‘big picture’ of British social democracy, both historical and contemporary, and point to grounds for greater optimism for its future prospects. -- .
