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Mark Bevir - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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sidney webb utilitarianism positivism and Social Democracy
The Journal of Modern History, 2002Co-Authors: Mark BevirAbstract:Sidney Webb is often represented as a descendent of the utilitarians. Social Democracy and the welfare state thus stand as the continuing development of Enlightenment rationalism. Alternatively, Webb appears as the representative of a new managerial and administrative class. Social Democracy and the welfare state here stand as the elitist and bureaucratic expressions of the power of this class. In contrast to these conventional views, this paper locates Webb in the context of a radicalism, peculiar to the 1870s, composed of ethical positivism and evolutionary sociology. He became a Socialist because of his positivist ethic. He defined his Socialism in relation to an evolutionary philosophy. And he later adopted collectivism as a result of turning to positivist sociology. Webb’s collectivism, however, provided little assistance in dealing with the dilemmas of the inter-war years. His ethical positivism and evolutionary sociology led him to turn to solutions apparently offered by the Soviet Union. This reinterpretation of Webb suggests a new view of Social Democracy and the welfare state. We should see them as the changing products of particular ideational and political contexts such as those of the 1870s and 1930s.
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Sidney Webb: Utilitarianism, Positivism, and Social Democracy - eScholarship
2002Co-Authors: Mark BevirAbstract:Sidney Webb is often represented as a descendent of the utilitarians. Social Democracy and the welfare state thus stand as the continuing development of Enlightenment rationalism. Alternatively, Webb appears as the representative of a new managerial and administrative class. Social Democracy and the welfare state here stand as the elitist and bureaucratic expressions of the power of this class. In contrast to these conventional views, this paper locates Webb in the context of a radicalism, peculiar to the 1870s, composed of ethical positivism and evolutionary sociology. He became a Socialist because of his positivist ethic. He defined his Socialism in relation to an evolutionary philosophy. And he later adopted collectivism as a result of turning to positivist sociology. Webb’s collectivism, however, provided little assistance in dealing with the dilemmas of the inter-war years. His ethical positivism and evolutionary sociology led him to turn to solutions apparently offered by the Soviet Union. This reinterpretation of Webb suggests a new view of Social Democracy and the welfare state. We should see them as the changing products of particular ideational and political contexts such as those of the 1870s and 1930s
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Postfoundationalism and Social Democracy
DANISH YEARBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY, 2000Co-Authors: Mark BevirAbstract:POSTFOUNDATIONALISM AND Social Democracy By Mark Bevir I. Contact details Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1950, USA [Email: mbevir@socrates.berkeley.edu] II. Biographical note Mark Bevir is a member of the Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley.
Luke Martell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Future for Cosmopolitan Social Democracy
2017Co-Authors: Luke MartellAbstract:Discussion of cosmopolitan Social Democracy, 2011, http://www.policy-network.net/articles/4089/Conflicts-in-cosmopolitanism-and-the-global-left
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Social Democracy after the crisis in Europe and the crisis of Social Democracy
2013Co-Authors: Luke MartellAbstract:There is a crisis of Social Democracy in terms of the prevalence of its ideas, policies and institutions. There is also a crisis in Europe, which is economic, political and Social. This article discusses where Social Democracy could be going in the context of these crises. It argues that Social Democracy could rediscover some of its historical tenets and approaches in response to the problems in Europe. At the same time it can rethink its approach on issues such as work and migration, seeking the redistribution of work and encouraging immigration for its economic and Social benefits. These would have knock-on effects for climate change and mobilising the young for Social Democracy. On the bases of the crisis in Europe and the crisis of Social Democracy, Social democrats can both rediscover and rethink where they are going.
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The Crisis in Europe and the Crisis of Social Democracy
2012Co-Authors: Luke MartellAbstract:It’s been a long time since the heyday of Social Democracy. Neoliberalism has held sway for decades and austerity is being used to attack public services. Social democrats are out of power across Europe and their arguments marginalised. Is the crisis of Europe a crisis of Social Democracy?
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Social Democracy in a global era
2012Co-Authors: Luke MartellAbstract:In the triumvirate of capital, labour and state, capital has long been a problem for the other two. Social Democracy has historically represented labour, especially in the UK where the Labour Party was born out of the trade union movement, and used the state as an agency to achieve its aims. But Social democratic goals of redistribution and regulation are often not in the interests of capital, or not seen to be. And capital has pressured Social democratic governments to restrain policies that involve such ends. The Social democratic parties were once the strongest political forces in Europe. Today, however, they appear disorientated and rudderless, crucially lacking the ideological, intellectual and organisational vitality which underpinned their strength in the post-war political landscape. Electorally marginalised, seemingly ideologically exhausted and often out-of-step with the contemporary zeitgeist, European Social Democracy is currently in profound need of revision and renewal – potentially its very existence as a political force is under threat. This book marks a serious attempt to forge the intellectual backbone of a renewed Social Democracy fit for the twenty-first century. Bringing together leading academics, political thinkers and policy experts, it offers a new and original perspective on ideological and policy innovation and will be invaluable reading for anyone interested in the future of Social Democracy.
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Social Democracy: Global and National Perspectives
2001Co-Authors: Luke Martell, Christien Van Den Anker, Matthew Browne, Stephanie Hoopes, Phil Larkin, Charles Lees, Francis Mcgowan, Neil StammersAbstract:How are the policies, meaning and ideology of Social Democracy changing and what is the context for this change? To what extent are Social democratic parties converging or diverging according to national traditions? What criticism are there of recent Social Democracy and what alternatives exist? This book offers a distinctive approach to answering these questions. By drawing on a wide range of political and ideological perspectives, the contributors have produced an interdisciplinary work of great theoretical and empirical value. They analyze developments in Social Democracy against the background of globalization, Europeanization and different national traditions. The perspectives range from the critical to the sympathetic, including discussion of where Social Democracy is going, as well as the argument that it provides no future for radical politics at all.
Gabriel Söderberg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn - 7. Nobel Economics and Social Democracy
The Nobel Factor, 2019Co-Authors: Avner Offer, Gabriel SöderbergAbstract:This chapter discusses two approaches to the economic balancing act of ‘satisfaction now’ and ‘satisfaction later’. How to manage this trade-off is what largely divides neoclassical economics from Social Democracy. In both approaches, people are ‘forward looking’. In economics, the future has a value in the present. The individual makes a choice that will maximize this present value. But in order to do this, the future needs to be known, and general equilibrium economics assumes that it is known: preferences, products, quantities, prices, everything. In contrast, Social Democracy has worked to secure the future by means of collective action, initially through trade unions, and then by means of parliamentary Democracy. Social Democracy acts for those whose prior endowments are modest, with no boost from inheritance, ability, or luck. Their future is uncertain and they are always at risk.
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The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn - 8. Models into Policy: Assar Lindbeck and Swedish Social Democracy
The Nobel Factor, 2019Co-Authors: Avner Offer, Gabriel SöderbergAbstract:This chapter looks at how Swedish Social Democracy was eventually challenged by the doctrines honoured by the prize it had created. Economists first took their place among the Nobel Prize winners in 1969, at the height of the golden age of Social Democracy in Sweden. The prize was paid by the central bank out of public money. However, a chronic economic crisis in the 1970s drove voters away from Social Democracy and towards a market liberalism which finally prevailed (for a while) in the 1990s. The focus here is on the role of economic theory. For this purpose, the travails of Social Democracy are followed as they affected the public trajectory of Assar Lindbeck (b. 1930), ‘the key figure in Swedish economics’. The discipline of economics in Sweden mostly spoke with one voice in this period, so this method provides for a sharp focus and fewer words.
Mathieu Vieira - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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European Social Democracy during the global economic crisis: Renovation or resignation?
2014Co-Authors: David J. Bailey, Jean-michel De Waele, Fabien Escalona, Mathieu VieiraAbstract:Introduction David Bailey, Jean-Michel De Waele, Fabien Escalona and Mathieu Vieira PART I: The political economy of European Social Democracy under global economic crisis 1. It does not happen here either: why Social democrats fail in the context of the great financial crisis - Fabien Escalona and Mathieu Vieira 2. Social Democracy and Social movements from crisis to crisis - George Ross 3. Why the financial crisis has not generated a Social democratic alternative in Europe? - Magnus Ryner 4. Social Democracy in the light of capitalist crises: the case of the British Labour - John Callaghan PART II: National responses to crisis 5. Coping with TINA: the Labour Party and the new crisis of capitalism - Philippe Marliere 6. Losing Social Democracy. Reflections on the erosion of a paradigmatic case of Social Democracy - Jenny Andersson 7. German Social Democracy: a popular project and an unpopular party - Ingo Schmidt 8. The French PS (2008-13). Not revolutionaries, not luminaries, just 'normal' guys amidst the tempest - Christophe Bouillaud 9. Back to the drawing board. The PSOE after the 2011 general election - Paul Kennedy 10. Trimph and collapse: the PASOK in the wake of the crisis in Greece (2009-13) - Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos PART III: Towards a Social democratic European Union? 11. Limits of consensus? The Party of European Socialists and the financial crisis - Michael Holmes and Simon Lightfoot 12. Palliating terminal Social democratic decline at the EU-level? - David Bailey 13. Reforming Europe, renewing Social Democracy? The PES, the debt crisis and the Europarties - Gerassimos Moschonas Postface: death by a thousand cuts? - Ashley Lavelle Index
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The Palgrave Handbook of Social Democracy in the European Union - The Palgrave Handbook of Social Democracy in the European Union
2013Co-Authors: Jean-michel De Waele, Fabien Escalona, Mathieu VieiraAbstract:The character of Social Democracy in the constituent countries of the European Union is more significant and much better understood than the available literature would appear to suggest. This thought-provoking and edifying handbook aims to redress this disparity by bringing together a range of top political scientists from across Europe to provide a definitive collection on Social Democracy in the EU, one that offers students and scholars both an informative and easy-to-use guide to Social Democracy as a system of governance in Europe. Through establishing a common framework for analysis and by exploring all 27 countries in the European Union according to this structure, The Palgrave Handbook of Social Democracy in Europe constitutes a compendium that is truly comparative in nature. This comparative and comprehensive framework coupled with the unprecedented overview of European Social Democracy over the past decade makes this handbook the go-to guide for those interested in all aspects of Social Democracy in the European Union.
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The Palgrave Handbook of Social Democracy in the European Union
2013Co-Authors: Fabien Escalona, Mathieu Vieira, Jean-michel De WaeleAbstract:The character of Social Democracy in the constituent countries of the European Union is more significant and much better understood than the available literature would appear to suggest. This thought-provoking and edifying handbook aims to redress this disparity by bringing together a range of top political scientists from across Europe to provide a definitive collection on Social Democracy in the EU, one that offers students and scholars both an informative and easy-to-use guide to Social Democracy as a system of governance in Europe. Through establishing a common framework for analysis and by exploring all 27 countries in the European Union according to this structure, The Palgrave Handbook of Social Democracy in Europe constitutes a compendium that is truly comparative in nature. This comparative and comprehensive framework coupled with the unprecedented overview of European Social Democracy over the past decade makes this handbook the go-to guide for those interested in all aspects of Social Democracy in the European Union.
Avner Offer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn - 7. Nobel Economics and Social Democracy
The Nobel Factor, 2019Co-Authors: Avner Offer, Gabriel SöderbergAbstract:This chapter discusses two approaches to the economic balancing act of ‘satisfaction now’ and ‘satisfaction later’. How to manage this trade-off is what largely divides neoclassical economics from Social Democracy. In both approaches, people are ‘forward looking’. In economics, the future has a value in the present. The individual makes a choice that will maximize this present value. But in order to do this, the future needs to be known, and general equilibrium economics assumes that it is known: preferences, products, quantities, prices, everything. In contrast, Social Democracy has worked to secure the future by means of collective action, initially through trade unions, and then by means of parliamentary Democracy. Social Democracy acts for those whose prior endowments are modest, with no boost from inheritance, ability, or luck. Their future is uncertain and they are always at risk.
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The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn - 8. Models into Policy: Assar Lindbeck and Swedish Social Democracy
The Nobel Factor, 2019Co-Authors: Avner Offer, Gabriel SöderbergAbstract:This chapter looks at how Swedish Social Democracy was eventually challenged by the doctrines honoured by the prize it had created. Economists first took their place among the Nobel Prize winners in 1969, at the height of the golden age of Social Democracy in Sweden. The prize was paid by the central bank out of public money. However, a chronic economic crisis in the 1970s drove voters away from Social Democracy and towards a market liberalism which finally prevailed (for a while) in the 1990s. The focus here is on the role of economic theory. For this purpose, the travails of Social Democracy are followed as they affected the public trajectory of Assar Lindbeck (b. 1930), ‘the key figure in Swedish economics’. The discipline of economics in Sweden mostly spoke with one voice in this period, so this method provides for a sharp focus and fewer words.
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The market turn: from Social Democracy to market liberalism
The Economic History Review, 2017Co-Authors: Avner OfferAbstract:Social Democracy and market liberalism provide different solutions to the same problem: how to provide for life‐cycle dependency. Social Democracy makes lateral transfers from producers to dependents by means of progressive taxation. Market liberalism uses financial markets to transfer financial entitlement over time. Social Democracy came up against the upper limits of public expenditure in the 1970s. The ‘market turn’ from Social Democracy to market liberalism was enabled by liberalized credit in the 1980s. Much of this was absorbed into homeownership, which attracted majorities of households (and voters) in the developed world. Early movers did well, but eventually easy credit drove house prices beyond the reach of younger cohorts. Debt service diminished effective demand, which instigated financial instability. Both Social Democracy and market liberalism are currently in crisis.
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The Market Turn: From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism
2017Co-Authors: Avner OfferAbstract:Social Democracy and market liberalism offered different solutions to the same problem: how to provide for life-cycle dependency. Social Democracy makes lateral transfers from producers to dependents by means of progressive taxation. Market liberalism uses financial markets to transfer financial entitlement over time. Social Democracy came up against the limits of public expenditure in the 1970s. The ‘market turn’ from Social Democracy to market liberalism was enabled by easy credit in the 1980s. Much of this was absorbed into homeownership, which attracted majorities of households (and voters) in the developed world. Early movers did well, but easy credit eventually drove house prices beyond the reach of younger cohorts. Debt service diminished effective demand, which instigated financial instability. Both Social Democracy and market liberalism are in crisis.
