In Search of Social Democracy: Responses to Crisis and Modernisation

by Martin McIvor, Ben Jackson, Nina Fishman

The search for social democracy has not been an easy one over the last three decades. The economic crisis of the 1970s, and the consequent rise of neo-liberalism, confronted social democrats with difficult new circumstances: tax-resistant electorates, the globalisation of capital and Western deindustrialisation. In response, a new bout of ideological revisionism consumed social democratic parties. But did this revisionism simply amount to a neo-liberalisation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719079209
• ISBN13: 9780719079207
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"