1st Edition
Social Democracy in Power The Capacity to Reform
328 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
328 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
336 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Globalization, European integration, and social change have devaluated traditional social democratic policy instruments. This book compares and explores how social democratic governments have had to adapt and whether they have successfully managed to uphold old social democratic goals and values in the light of these challenges.
This volume examines the policy measures of social democratic... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Challenges of Social Democracy 3. Opportunity Structures: Actors, Institutions and Legacies 4. United Kingdom 5. Germany 6. France 7. The Netherlands 8. Sweden 9. Denmark 10. Social Democratic Policies in Comparison 11. Prospects for Social Democratic Reforms
Biography
Wolfgang Merkel is Professor of Political Science at Humboldt University, and Director of the Research Unit 'Democracy' at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Germany. Alexander Petring and Christian Henkes are Research Fellows at the WZB. Christoph Egle is a Lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
