Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times

The Left and Economic Policy Since 1980
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-924137-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 746 g

Never has the Left held power in so many advanced economies, yet never has the difference that this makes to economic policy been so hard to specify. Across a range of European countries and in Australia, governments of the Left have struggled to chart a distinctive course in the face of the neoliberal backlash against state intervention, the welfare state, and guaranteed full employment. This volume is the first to examine the record of these governments in securing high employment and a more equal distribution of income in the face of slow growth and global pressures to reduce inflation. Detailed studies of governments from Mitterand to Blair and from Keating to Papandreou by leading writers from the countries are complemented by surveys of experience of the welfare state and of the ideological and historical background to these governments' attempts to further the objectives of social democracy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glyn, Andrew

Glyn, The Late Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Andrew Glyn: Introduction

- 2: Juhana Vartiainen: Understanding Swedish Democracy: Victims of Success

- 3: Alois Guger: The Austrian Experience

- 4: John Quiggin: Social Democracy and Market Reform in Australia and New Zealand

- 5: Frédéric Lordon: The Logic and Limits of Désinflation Compétitive

- 6: Euclid Tsakalotos: The Political Economy of Social Democratic Economic Policies: The PASOK Experiment in Greece

- 7: Albert Recio and Jordi Roca: The Spanish Socialists in Power: Thirteen Years of Economic Policy

- 8: Andrew Glyn and Stewart Wood: New Labour's Economic Policy

- 9: Tadeusz Kowalik: Why the Social Democratic Option Failed: Poland's Experience of Systemic Change

- 10: Torben Iversen: The Choices for Scandinavian Social Democracy in Comparative Perspective

- 11: Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens: The Social Democratic Welfare State

- 12: Adam Przeworski: How Many Ways can be Third?

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Glyn tragically died of a brain tumour just before Christmas 2007. Andrew Glyn is Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is also Consultant to the National Union of Mineworkers, ILO, and the UN.

He has previously worked for H.M. Treasury and for the University of Tokyo.