In this Book
summary
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 traditional party politics, the expansion of market globalization, and the shift to a knowledge-based economy. Their comparative studies of center-left politics in Scandinavia, France, Germany, southern Europe, post–Cold War Central and Eastern Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States emphasize differences in the goals of left political parties and in the political, economic, and demographic contexts in which they operate. The contributors identify and investigate the more successful center-left initiatives, scrutinizing how some conditions facilitated them, while others blocked their emergence or limited their efficacy.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Part I: Ideas, Projects, and Electoral Realities
- Part II: Varieties of Social Democracy and Liberalism
- Reluctantly Center-Left? : The French Case
- pp. 141-161
- Part III: New Risks, New Challenges, New Possibilities
- Immigration and the European Left
- pp. 265-289
- Bibliography
- pp. 363-394
- About the Contributors
- pp. 395-398
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822394518
Related ISBN
9780822350613
MARC Record
OCLC
755725194
Pages
424
Launched on MUSE
2020-02-05
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
