
Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times
The Left and Economic Policy since 1980
The Late Andrew Glyn(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 3. May 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-19-924138-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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this book should be required reading for those social scientists and economists who predict global convergence on 'efficient', market-conforming institutions and policies * Journal of International Studies * provides an invaluable reference work for learning from the local successes and pervasive limitations of social democracy in the 1980s and 1990s * Red Pepper *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
22 figures
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
588 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-924138-5 (9780199241385)
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Person
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.
He has previously worked for H.M. Treasury and for the University of Tokyo.
Content
1. Introduction ; 2. Understanding Swedish Democracy: Victims of Success ; 3. The Austrian Experience ; 4. Social Democracy and Market Reform in Australia and New Zealand ; 5. The Logic and Limits of Desinflation Competitive ; 6. The Political Economy of Social Democratic Economic Policies: The PASOK Experiment in Greece ; 7. The Spanish Socialists in Power: Thirteen Years of Economic Policy ; 8. New Labour's Economic Policy ; 9. Why the Social Democratic Option Failed: Poland's Experience of Systemic Change ; 10. The Choices for Scandinavian Social Democracy in Comparative Perspective ; 11. The Social Democratic Welfare State ; 12. How Many Ways can be Third?