Table of Contents

List of tables
List of figures
Contributors
Introduction – John Callaghan, Nina Fishman, Ben Jackson, Martin McIvor
Part I: After the Golden Age – social democracy in crisis
1. Explanations for the neo-liberal direction of social democracy: Germany, Sweden and Australia compared – Ashley Lavelle
2. Fiscal policies, social spending and economic performance in France, Germany and the UK Since 1970 – Norman Flynn
3. From The future of socialism (1956) to a future without socialism? The crisis of British social democratic political economy – Noel Thompson
Part II: Responses to the crisis – the Third Way and other revisions
4. The political economy of French social democratic economic policy autonomy, 1997–2002: credibility, dirigisme and globalisation – Ben Clift
5. The Spanish Workers’ Party: continuity, innovation and renewal – Paul Kennedy
6. A mew Swedish model? Swedish social democracy at the crossroads – Dimitris Tsarouhas
7. The modernisation of German social democracy? Towards a Third Way and back – Hartwig Pautz
8. The meaning of modernisation: New Labour and public sector reform – Eric Shaw
9. Reformism in a ‘conservative’ system: the European Union and social democratic identity – Gerassimos Moschonas
Part III: Resources for rethinking
10. ‘Unlocking the talent of every citizen’: debates about potential and ambition in British socialist thought – Jeremy Nuttall
11. The continuing relevance of Croslandite social democracy – Kevin Hickson
12. The rhetoric of redistribution – Ben Jackson.
13. Republicanism, socialism and the renewal of the left – Martin McIvor
14. Economic democracy instead of more capitalism: core historical concepts reconsidered – Adrian Zimmermann
15. Afterword – Nina Fishman
Index

About the Author

John Callaghan is Professor of Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford Nina Fishman is Honorary Research Professor in the History Department at Swansea University Ben Jackson is University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in Modern History at University College, Oxford Martin McIvor is editor of *Renewal: a journal of social democracy*, and works on research and policy development for the public services trade union, UNISON