The Dilemmas of Social Democracies: Overcoming Obstacles to a More Just World

by Howard Richards and Joanna Swanger

The Dilemmas of Social Democracies seeks to advance the eradication of poverty and the ethical construction of social democracy and sustainable peace. Howard Richards and Joanna Swanger argue that the reason that capitalism resists transformation and that social democracy is so hard to achieve is because of the philosophical and institutional underpinnings-the constitutive rules-of capitalism; the book therefore explores the historical origins...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739109707
• ISBN13: 9780739109700
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"