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Which Way Left for Social Democracy: New Narratives in the Shadow of the Global Financial Crisis book cover

1st Edition

Which Way Left for Social Democracy New Narratives in the Shadow of the Global Financial Crisis

By John A. Bourdouvalis Copyright 2026
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge
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Bourdouvalis examines how European democratic responses to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis demonstrated alternative forms of social democracy. The book uses an interpretive case study analysis of democratic responses to the 2008 crisis and focuses on how movements in Spain, Greece and Iceland sought to confront and resist neoliberal post- democratic capitalism. It covers protests and social... Read more

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction. Chapter 1. Neoliberalism, the state and the Global Financial Crisis Chapter 2. Democratic capitalism and the decline of social democracy Chapter 3. Radical democracy and evolution of democratic practice in social movements and transnational activism. Chapter 4. Podemos and populism: radicalising social democracy? Chapter 5. From resistance at the margins to government: the precarious rise of Syriza in Greece Chapter 6. Icarus rising: The Icelandic response to the financial crisis Conclusion Index

Biography

John A. Bourdouvalis is a sessional lecturer with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University. His research focuses on critiques of neoliberalism, post- Marxism, democratic theory and contemporary social democracy in Greece, Spain and Iceland.

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