Rethinking Social Democracy in Western Europe

First published in 1993. This title is the product of a conference designed to throw light on some central questions about the phase of programmatic renewal from the 1950s to the then-present-day. The evidence presented in this volume pursues to demonstrate the existence of a European 'wave' of social democratic programmatic renewal effort during the 1980s, the sweep of which, the author argues, being broader than the previous renewal wave in the 1950s.

Richard Gillespie is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Warwick. Dr Gillespie has written on Spain's external relations, with special reference to Europe and the Mediterranean. William E. Paterson is Salvesen Professor of European Institutions and Director of the Europa Institute, University of Edinburgh. He is co-editor of the journal German Politics.