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What's left of the left : Democrats and Social Democrats in challenging times / edited by James Cronin, George Ross, and James Shoch.

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"In What's Left of the Left, distinguished scholars of European and U.S. politics consider how center-left political parties have fared since the 1970s. They explore the left's responses to the end of the postwar economic boom, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the erosion of traditio...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Project MUSE)
Other Authors: Cronin, James E., Ross, George, 1940-, Shoch, James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.
Series:Online access with subscription: Duke University Press.
Subjects:
Political parties > United States > History.
Political parties > Europe > History.
Center parties > United States > History.
Center parties > Europe > History.
Socialist parties > United States > History.
Socialist parties > Europe > History.
Right and left (Political science)
Globalization > Political aspects.
Center parties.
Political parties.
Socialist parties.
Europe.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The new world of the center-left / James Cronin, George Ross, and James Shoch
  • Part I. Ideas, projects, and electoral realities. Social democracy's past and potential future / Sheri Berman
  • Historical decline or change of scale? The electoral dynamics of European social democratic parties, 1950-2009 / Gerassimos Moschonas
  • Part II. Varieties of social democracy and liberalism. Once again a model : Nordic social democracy in a globalized world / Jonas Pontusson
  • Embracing markets, bonding with America, trying to do good : the ironies of New Labour / James Cronin
  • Reluctantly center-left? The French case / Arthur Goldhammer and George Ross
  • The evolving democratic coalition : prospects and problems / Ruy Teixeira
  • Party politics and the American welfare state / Christopher Howard
  • Grappling with globalization : the Democratic Party's struggles over international market integration / James Shoch
  • Part III. New risks, new challenges, new possibilities. European center-left parties and new social risks : facing up to new policy challenges / Jane Jenson
  • Immigration and the European left / Sofía Pérez
  • The Central and Eastern European left : a political family under construction / Jean-Michel De Waele and Sorina Soare
  • European center-lefts and the mazes of European integration / George Ross
  • Conclusion. Progressive politics in tough times / James Cronin, George Ross, and James Shoch.

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