1st Edition
Reinventing Social Democracy The Bad Godesberg of German Social Democracy
By Karim Fertikh
Copyright 2026
214 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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During the twentieth century, social democracy in Europe experienced profound ideological changes. The Bad Godesberg programme of November 1959 is widely considered one of the most momentous of these shifts in European social-democratic ideology. Reinventing Social Democracy explores the programme’s genesis and offers an original interpretation of both the written text and its subsequent uses.... Read more
Preface. Introduction. 1. The Changes in the Social Democrats’ Intellectual Milieu 2. ‘The Old Socialist Idea That Knowledge Is Power’ 3. Producing a Programmatic Text: A Political Sociology of the Commission’s Work 4. In the Name of the Party 5. Bad Godesberg and its Afterlives. Conclusion
Biography
Karim Fertikh is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Strasbourg (Sciences Po Strasbourg) and a junior member of the Institut universitaire de France. He has widely published on the history of German social democracy and on EU politics.
