This thought-provoking book challenges the conventional wisdom that social democracy was market-hostile forty years ago, and is market-friendly today. In this study Hinnfors provides detailed accounts of the British Labour Party and the Swedish Social Democratic Party and their shifting approaches to the liberal market economy during the period 1965-2002. Through this analysis he draws original conclusions about the parties' capacity to be flexible.
Identifying a crisis for representative democracy in Western European party systems, this essential book studies the widening gap between political parties’ ideological economic Left–Right rhetoric. Combining in-depth theoretical analysis with empirical research, it addresses whether political party ideologies are converging or diverging, and whether these changes are initiated by the parties themselves, aligned with voter demand, or forced by economic globalization.
This thought-provoking book challenges the conventional wisdom that social democracy was market-hostile forty years ago, and is market-friendly today. In this study Hinnfors provides detailed accounts of the British Labour Party and the Swedish Social Democratic Party and their shifting approaches to the liberal market economy during the period 1965-2002. Through this analysis he draws original conclusions about the parties' capacity to be flexible.
Identifying a crisis for representative democracy in Western European party systems, this essential book studies the widening gap between political parties’ ideological economic Left–Right rhetoric. Combining in-depth theoretical analysis with empirical research, it addresses whether political party ideologies are converging or diverging, and whether these changes are initiated by the parties themselves, aligned with voter demand, or forced by economic globalization.
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