Beschreibung:
As the twenty-first century dawned, social democratic parties across Europe and beyond found themselves newly, and rather surprisingly, in the ascendant. Britain's New Labour was only the most spectacular in a whole series of political restorations. For many, this renewal only became possible when 'modernizing' social democratic parties jettisoned their old ideological and institutional baggage, setting off down a 'third way' that rejected the outmoded ideas of both left and right. The argument of Hard Choices is that this view is doubly misleading: it misrepresents the past and misunderstands the present.
Acknowledgements. Introduction. Chapter 1 The Strange Death of Social Democracy. Chapter 2 The Making of Social Democracy. Chapter 3 "Classical" Social Democracy and the Alternatives. Chapter 4 Globalization and the End of Social Democracy. Chapter 5 The Challenge of Demographic Change. Chapter 6 The Social Democratic Future. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index