Książka Hard Choices - Social Democracy in the Twenty-First Century Christopher Pierson

Hard Choices - Social Democracy in the Twenty-First Century

Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Wydawca: Polity Press
Dostępność: 50 % szansa
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As the twenty--first century dawned, social democratic parties across Europe and beyond found themse...

Informacje o książce

Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
2001
strony
176
EAN
9780745619842
ISBN
0745619843
Enbook ID
04907862
Wydawca
Waga
388
Wymiary
151 x 236 x 18

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As the twenty--first century dawned, social democratic parties across Europe and beyond found themselves newly, and rather surprisingly, in the ascendant. Britaina s New Labour was only the most spectacular in a whole series of political restorations. For many, this renewal only became possible when a modernizinga social democratic parties jettisoned their old ideological and institutional baggage, setting off down a a third waya that rejected the outmoded ideas of both left and right. The argument of Hard Choices is that this view is doubly misleading: it misrepresents the past and misunderstands the present. The first half of the book restores some of the complexity to social democracya s past and shows that it was much more subtle, varied and intelligent than its latter--day critics suppose. Turning to the present, the second half of the book shows how a few contemporary half--truths -- relating to globalization and demographic change -- have been used to justify the abandonment of the defining core of a social democratic politics. The book does not argue that a nothing has really changeda . In fact, a great deal has changed and policy--makers have to adjust to a range of new circumstances, constraints (and opportunities). But those who exhort us simply to abandon the a traditionala terrain of the centre--left are wrong. Social democracy remains just what it always was -- a politics of messy compromises and hard choices. This book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars in politics, social policy and political sociology, as well as the interested general reader.

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