Creating Social Democracy : A Century of the Social Democratic Labor Party in...

Name: Creating Social Democracy : A Century of the Social Democratic Labor Party in...
Brand: Pennsylvania State University Press

Pennsylvania State University Press

Creating Social DemocracyA Century of the Social Democratic Labor Party in Sweden\nAuthor(s): Klaus Misgeld, Karl Molin, Klas mark\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271009315, 978-0271009315\nSynopsis\nThe Swedish Social Democratic Labor Party (SAP) was founded more than one hundred years ago, in April 1889. During this \""century of social democracy\"" Sweden has been transformed from an agrarian to an industrial society, from a poor country to a welfare state; and the SAP has evolved from being a lower-class movement to the nation's leading party for more than half a century. Is Sweden's development so special and is the Swedish labor movement unique when viewed from an international perspective? When were the critical decisions taken, what did the Social Democrats want to achieve, and what have they actually succeeded in doingespecially in light of the Social Democrats' loss o.