Cronin / Ross / Shoch What's Left of the Left

Democrats and Social Democrats in Challenging Times
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9451-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten

What's Left of the Left offers studies comparing how center-left political parties and movements have fared since the 1970s throughout Europe and in the United States.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cronin, James E.

Ross, George W.

Shoch, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: The New World of the Center-Left / James Cronin, George Ross, and James Shoch 1

Part I: Ideas, Projects, and Electoral Realities

Social Democracy's Past and Potential Future / Sheri Berman 29

Historical Decline or Change of Scale? The Electoral Dynamics of European Social Democratic Parties, 1950–2009 / Gerassimos Moschonas 50

Part II: Varieties of Social Democracy and Liberalism

Once Again a Model: Nordic Social Democracy in a Globalized World / Jonas Pontusson 89

Embracing Markets, Bonding with America, Trying to Do Good: The Ironies of New Labour / James Cronin 116

Reluctantly Center-Left? The French Case / Arthur Goldhammer and George Ross 141

The Evolving Democratic Coalition: Prospects and Problems / Ruy Teixeira 162

Party Politics and the American Welfare State / Christopher Howard 188

Grappling with Globalization: The Democratic Party's Struggles over International Market Integration / James Shoch 210

Part III: New Risks, New Challenges, New Possibilities

European Center-Left Parties and New Social Risks: Facing Up to New Policy Challenges / Jane Jenson 241

Immigration and the European Left / Sofía Pérez 265

The Central and Eastern European Left: A Political Family under Construction / Jean-Michel De Waele and Sorina Soare 290

European Center-Lefts and the Mazes of European Integration / George Ross 319

Conclusion: Progressive Politics in Tough Times / James Cronin, George Ross, and James Shoch 343

Bibliography 363

About the Contributors 395

Index 399

Über Autor(innen)

James Cronin is Professor of History at Boston College and an affiliate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.George Ross is ad personam Chaire Jean Monnet at the University of Montreal, Hillquit Professor in Labor and Social Thought Emeritus at Brandeis University, and Faculty Associate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.James Shoch is Associate Professor of Government at California State University, Sacramento.