The retreat of social democracy / John Callaghan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Callaghan, John (John T.)

Series:

Political analyses

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism--History.

Socialism.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 255 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

This book examines policy and program in the key social democratic parties of Britain, France, Germany and Sweden since the 1970s and seeks to situate change in the context of capitalist restructuring. It examines the period's mass unemployment, faltering economic performance, rising inflation and strain on welfare states. John Callaghan shows how the radical Left within social democracy initially responded to the unfolding crisis of the post-war order and why it was ultimately defeated. His analysis also reveals the extent of the divergence between British Labour's subsequent ideological evolution and that of its sister parties in continental Europe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index.

ISBN:

0719050316

0719050324

OCLC:

59576247