Rethinking European Social Democracy and Socialism - 9781032020020

Taylor & Francis > University of Helsinki

Rethinking European Social Democracy and SocialismThe History of the Centre-Left in Northern and Southern Europe in the Late 20th Century\nAuthor(s): Alan Granadino, Stefan Nygrd, Peter Stadius\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032020020, 978-1032020020\nSynopsis\nWith a combined focus on social democrats in Northern and Southern Europe, this book crucially broadens our understanding of the transformation of European social democracy from the mid-1970s to the early-1990s.\n\nIn doing so, it revisits the transformation of this ideological family at the end of the Cold War, and before the launch of Third Way politics, and examines the dynamics and power relations at play among European social democratic parties in a context of nascent globalisation. The chronological, methodological and geographical approaches adopted allow for a more nuanced narrative of change for European social democracy than the hitherto dominae