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Informationen zum Autor John Callaghan is Professor of Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford. Nina Fishman is Honorary Research Professor in the History Department at Swansea University. Ben Jackson is University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in Modern History at University College, Oxford. Martin McIvor is editor of Renewal: a journal of social democracy, and works on research and policy development for the public services trade union, UNISON Klappentext The first work to reflect in detail on the Left's experiences in government in the 1990s and early twenty-first century. Zusammenfassung The first work to reflect in detail on the Left’s experiences in government in the 1990s and early twenty-first century. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tablesList of figuresContributorsIntroduction - John Callaghan, Nina Fishman, Ben Jackson, Martin McIvorPart I: After the Golden Age - social democracy in crisis1. Explanations for the neo-liberal direction of social democracy: Germany, Sweden and Australia compared - Ashley Lavelle2. Fiscal policies, social spending and economic performance in France, Germany and the UK Since 1970 - Norman Flynn3. From The future of socialism (1956) to a future without socialism? The crisis of British social democratic political economy - Noel ThompsonPart II: Responses to the crisis - the Third Way and other revisions4. The political economy of French social democratic economic policy autonomy, 1997-2002: credibility, dirigisme and globalisation - Ben Clift5. The Spanish Workers' Party: continuity, innovation and renewal - Paul Kennedy6. A mew Swedish model? Swedish social democracy at the crossroads - Dimitris Tsarouhas7. The modernisation of German social democracy? Towards a Third Way and back - Hartwig Pautz8. 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 MoschonasPart III: Resources for rethinking10. 'Unlocking the talent of every citizen': debates about potential and ambition in British socialist thought - Jeremy Nuttall11. The continuing relevance of Croslandite social democracy - Kevin Hickson12. The rhetoric of redistribution - Ben Jackson.13. Republicanism, socialism and the renewal of the left - Martin McIvor14. Economic democracy instead of more capitalism: core historical concepts reconsidered - Adrian Zimmermann15. Afterword - Nina FishmanIndex...
