Rethinking Social Democracy (Paperback)

Kevin Morgan

ISBN 10: 185489160X / ISBN 13: 9781854891600

Published by Rivers Oram Press, London, 2005

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Paperback. This issue of "Socialist History" explores aspects of the past, present and future of social democracy in the context of rival political movements on the left and of wider cultural and intellectual influences, as well as tracing its key relationship with socio-economics. In the first main article on this theme, Stefan Berger deftly explores the rival claims of communists and social democrats as political movements of the left; he also suggests that beneath this dichotomy was a shared tendency to neglect issues of democracy, as opposed to social and economic reform. An issue of wide significance in twentieth-century politics is the relationship between social democracy and liberalism. Andrew Thorpe examines the relationship between the Labour and Liberal parties in Britain between the wars and suggests that retrospective counterfactuals as to a possible broad centre-left ignore a whole host of deep-seated tensions. Aad Blok's article on the leading Dutch economist Jan Tinbergen gives a fascinating insight into the cultural and intellectual influences on an 'expert-intellectual' whose principal agency of reform was the state and whose measure of economic order was efficiency.Also in this issue, Donald Sassoon, in an interview with Willie Thompson, reflects on social democracy in the context of his own practice as a historian 'without manifestoes'; while in Forum, the theme of New Labour and its inheritance is explored from two different and stimulating perspectives by Robert Taylor and Mark Bevir. Explores aspects of the social democracy in the context of rival political movements on the left and of cultural and intellectual influences, as well as tracing its key relationship with socio-economics. This issue also examines the relationship between the Labour and Liberal parties in Britain between the wars. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking Social Democracy (Paperback)
• Publisher: Rivers Oram Press, London
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 185489160X
• ISBN 13: 9781854891600
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

In this issue, the past, present, and future of social democracy in the context of rival political movements on the left and wider cultural and intellectual influences, as well social democracy's relationship with socioeconomics is explored.

About the Author

Kevin Morgan teaches politics at the University of Manchester. He is author of the biography Harry Pollitt and editor of the Socialist History Journal. John Callaghan is a professor of politics at the University of Wolverhampton and reviews editor for the Socialist History Journal. Willie Thompson is a former editor of the Socialist History Journal and author of Postmodernism and History.