Social democracy in the 21st century

Social democrats in the Western world look back on a century where growth and expansion of centre-left values seemed, during certain periods of time, to be a law of nature. Today, the so-called golden era from the 1940s to the 1970s is just a distant memory for the social democratic movement. Volume...

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Other Authors Brandal, Nik (Editor), Bratberg, Øivind (Editor), Einar Thorsen, Dag (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
SeriesComparative social research ; v. 35.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781839099540
9781839099526
DOI10.1108/S0195-6310202135
Physical Description1 online resource (304 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: social democracy in the 21st century / Dag Einar Thorsen
  • Chapter 2. Social democratic challenges in the South and why they matter for the North too / Olle Törnquist
  • Chapter 3. Each unhappy in its own way? The rise and fall of social democracy in the Visegrád countries since 1989 / Elisabeth Bakke and Nick Sitter
  • Chapter 4. Social democratic trade unions in the knowledge economy: challenges, pathways and dilemmas / Christian Lyhne Ibsen
  • Chapter 5. Basic income and social democratic policies / na Kildal
  • Chapter 6. Goverce by hybrid advisory committees - a hallmark of social democracy? / Cathrine Holst and Eva Krick
  • Chapter 7. In the quest for a European social model: the EU integration path of social democratic parties in Germany and Spain / Björn Hacker
  • Chapter 8. Social democracy and the "Territorial Question": understanding the attitudes of social democratic parties towards decentralization / Simon Toubeau
  • Chapter 9. From bounded universalism to the trial of internationalisation: migration and social democracy in Scandinavia / Grete Brochmann
  • Chapter 10. Duties first, rights next! The Danish social democrats' right turn on migration politics / Susi Meret
  • Chapter 11. Third way departures and 21st-century social democracy: Corbyn vs Macron / Nik. Brandal and Øivind Bratberg.