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Social democracy is on the back-foot, and increasingly centre-left political parties are struggling to win office. Since the global financial crisis, if not before, there has been a general decline in the fortunes of social democratic and labour parties. Against these recent developments, there is a long-standing literature that appraises the electoral performance and impact of the left more broadly. Much of the literature on social democracy tends to be pessimistic, and there is a plethora of research that denotes recent developments as a ‘crisis’. Bringing together a range of leading academi ... More
Keywords: social democracy, social democratic politics, social democratic policy, centre-left, neo-liberal age
Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9781447332664 |
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: May 2018 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447332664.001.0001 |
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