The future of social democracy in Europe
The political left believed the crisis of neoliberalism would play into its
hands. The opposite has proved to be the case. No new variety of capitalism has
emerged to fill the void and left-of-centre parties have lost a devastating run
of European elections.
This new Policy Network book, edited by Olaf Cramme and Patrick
Diamond, contends that social democracy needs to undergo profound renewal if it
is to address the exhausted form of western capitalist democracies - the
narratives of both ‘third way modernisers’ and the ‘traditional left’ do not
offer credible paths forward.
Bringing together leading academics, political thinkers and policy
experts, the book seeks to carve out new doctrines, new concepts and new
interpretations on which a credible centre-left politics can be built and from
which new ideas can emerge.
After the Third Way is available through the publisher I.B.
Tauris.
Contents and chapters
The Guiding Purpose of Centre-Left Politics
1. From
Fatalism to Fraternity: Governing Purpose and the Good
Society
Patrick Diamond
2. Social Democracy in a
Global Era
Luke Martell
Policy Predicaments
3. Debt and Deficits: The Quest for
Economic Competence
Andrew Gamble
4. The Mechanics of Markets: Politics, Economics and
Finance
John Kay
5. Social Democracy at the End of the Welfare
State?
Peter Taylor-Gooby
6. Equality, Social Trust and the Politics of Institutional
Design
Bo Rothstein
7. Progress and Social Policy: Two-and-a-Half Cheers for
Education
Lane Kenworthy
8. Social Cohesion, Culture
Politics and the Impact of Migration
René Cuperus and Mark
Elchardus
9. Identity, Community and the Politics of Recognition
Michael Kenny
Governance and Politics
10. The Power of European
Integration: Choice and Purpose for Centre-Left Politics
Olaf
Cramme
11. Back to the Future: Towards a Red-Green Politics
John
McTernan
12. Globalisation Challenges to Centre-Left
Internationalism
John Lloyd
13. The Squeezed Middle and the New Inequality
Liam
Byrne
14. Citizen Engagement and the Quest for Solidarity
Henry
Tam
15. Co-operation, Creativity and Equality: Key Concepts for a New
Social Democratic Era
Tobias Dürr and Robert Misik
Afterword
16. The New Social Democracy?
Olaf
Cramme and Patrick Diamond
About the editors
Olaf
Cramme is director of Policy Network and a visiting fellow at the
London School of Economics’ European Institute.
Patrick
Diamond is senior research fellow at Policy Network. He is also a
Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.
After the Third Way will be launched at a Policy Network
and King's College London public lecture in May. More details to follow.
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