Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures and tables vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I After the golden age: social democracy in crisis
7. 1 Explanations for the neo-liberal direction of social democracy 9
8. 2 Fiscal policies, social spending and economic performance in France, Germany and the UK since 1970 29
9. 3 From The Future of Socialism (1956) to a future without socialism? 53
10. 4 The political economy of French social democratic economic policy autonomy, 1997–2002 73
11. 5 The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party 93
12. 6 A new Swedish model? Swedish social democracy at the crossroads 112
13. 7 The modernisation of German social democracy 129
14. 8 The meaning of modernisation 147
15. 9 Reformism in a ‘conservative’ system 168
16. Part III Resources for rethinking
17. 10 Unlocking the talent of every citizen 195
18. 11 The continuing relevance of Croslandite social democracy 216
19. 12 The rhetoric of redistribution 233
20. 13 Republicanism, socialism and the renewal of the left 252
21. 14 Economic democracy instead of more capitalism 267
22. 15 Afterword 286
23. Index 301