Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times

The Left and Economic Policy Since 1980
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-924138-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 588 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 records 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 Mitterrand 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 Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien

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.