Social Democracy in the 21st Century

Nik Brandal, Øivind Bratberg, Dag Einar Thorsen, Nik Brandal, Øivind Bratberg, Dag Einar Thorsen, Nik. Brandal, Øivind Bratberg, Dag Einar Thorsen

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781839099557
  9781839099533
• eBook ISBN:
  9781839099540
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Demography
• Index: Social Sciences

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 35 of Comparative Social Research challenges this narrative of the post-war glory of social democracy. It argues that social democracy has been associated too tightly with the specific context of post-1945 and explores the margin for manoeuvre for the social democratic movement, both now and in the future.

Contributors to this book explore essential questions for contemporary social democrats, such as;

• What does social democracy constitute as a set of ideas in the 21st century experiencing rapid technological, economic and demographic change?
• Is the narrative of the decline of social democracy warranted, and is there an opportunity for transformation or even rejuvenation?

Social Democracy in the 21st Century is an essential reading for academics and researchers of political science and sociology.

Index

Aarhus, 229, 231–232

Absorption capacity, 198–199

Acemoglu, Daron, 31, 75

Ad hoc committee systems, 114

Africa, 11, 236

African National Congress (ANC), 25

Age of Social Democracy, The , 196

Agenda 2030, 34

AkademikernesCentralorganization (AC), 78

Akbayan (Citizen Action Party) (Philippines), 28

Alleanza Nazionale (AN), 181–182

Alliance of Free Democrats (SzDSz), 52–53

Artificial intelligence, 75

Asia, 11

Assimilation, 202–203

Association of Workers of Slovakia (ZRS), 53–54

Attlee, Clement, 254–255

Auken, Svend, 230–231

Autonomous Communities (AC), 174

Basic income, 92–93, 99–101

attitudes towards, 102–104

in early twentieth century, 95–96

economic sustainability of, 104–105

sustainability of welfare state, 105–106

Belgian identity, 183–184

Belgium, 163

Benn, Tony, 254

Bennite Socialist, 246

Berlin, 22

‘Bicycle-resentment’ syndrome, 239

Big data, 75

Bild, Carl, 206

Blair, Tony, 2–3, 246

Bloc politics, 237–238

Blue-collar-cum-white-collar alliance, 80

Border control, 208

Brandt, Willy, 16–17

Brazil, 17

Bretton Woods agreement, 22

Brexit, 17–18, 265

Britain See United Kingdom

British Labour Party (LAB), 4, 174

Broad alliances, 32

Brown; Gordon, 249

Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde (BHV), 182

Bundestag Official Printed Papers (BOPP), 119

Bureaucratic capitalists, 21

Buscayno, ‘Dante’, 23

Business unionism, 70

Capitalism, 21

Casa della Liberta government, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Editor
• Title
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• List of Tables and Figures
• About the Contributors
• Editorial Board
• List of Reviewers
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction: Social Democracy in the 21st Century
• Social Democratic Challenges in the South – And Why They Matter for the North Too
• Each Unhappy in Its Own Way? The Rise and Fall of Social Democracy in the Visegrád Countries since 1989
• Social Democratic Trade Unions in the Knowledge Economy: Challenges, Pathways and Dilemmas
• Basic Income and Social Democratic Policies
• Governance by Hybrid Advisory Committees – A Hallmark of Social Democracy?
• In the Quest for a European Social Model: The EU Integration Path of Social Democratic Parties in Germany and Spain
• Social Democracy and the ‘Territorial Question’: Understanding the Attitudes of Social Democratic Parties towards Decentralisation
• From Bounded Universalism to the Trial of Internationalisation: Migration and Social Democracy in Scandinavia
• Duties First, Rights Next! The Danish Social Democrats' Right Turn on Migration Politics
• Third Way Departures and 21st-Century Social Democracy: Corbyn vs Macron
• Index