Rethinking European Social Democracy and Socialism

With a combined focus on social democrats in Northern and Southern Europe, this book crucially broadens our understanding of the transformation of European social democracy from the mid-1970s to the early-1990s.

Autorentext

Alan Granadino is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tampere University, Finland.

Stefan Nygård is Senior Researcher in the Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Peter Stadius is Professor in Nordic Studies and Director of the Centre for Nordic Studies, CENS, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Inhalt

Introduction: North and South in European and Global Social Democracy 1. The Socialist International as a Transnational Political Actor, 19501970 2. From Democratic Socialism to Neoliberalisation: Political and Ideological Evolution of Nordic Social Democrats and Portuguese Socialists After the Economic Crisis of the 1970s 3. Put (Southern) Europe To Work: The Nordic Turn of European Socialists in the Early 1990s 4. Social Democracy, Globalisation and the Ambiguities of "Europeanisation": Revisiting the Southern European Crises of the 1970s 5. Logics of Influence: European Social Democrats and the Iberian Transition to Democracy 6. Radicalism and Reformism in Post-war Italian Socialism: A Comparative View 7. Cultural Affinity and Small-State Solidarity: Sweden and Global NorthSouth Relations in the 1970s 8. Looking South: The Role of Portuguese Democratisation in the Socialist International's Initiatives Towards Latin America in the 1970s 9. Contribution to the Critique of "Social Democracy in One Country": The Case of Sweden 10. Defining Progress in Post-war Mediterranean: Communist Movements and their Influence in Algeria and Egypt after 1945. Epilogue: North-South and Social Democratic Transformations in Europe and Beyond