The Retreat of Social Democracy
- ISBN-10
- 0719050316
- ISBN-13
- 9780719050312
- Pages
- 255
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Author
- John T. Callaghan
Description
This book examines policy and program in the key social democratic parties of Britain, France, Germany and Sweden since the 1970s and seeks to situate change in the context of capitalist restructuring. It examines mass unemployment, faltering economic performance, rising inflation and strainon welfare states. Callaghan shows how the radical Left within social democracy initially responded to the unfolding crisis of the post-war order and why it was ultimately defeated. Callaghan's analysis also reveals the extent of the divergence between British Labour's subsequent ideaologicalevolution and theat of its sister parties in continental Europe.
