In the Name of Social Democracy: The Great Transformation: 1945 to the Present - Hardcover

This excellent book maps out the profound doubts about social democratic identity at a time when the parties in question appear resigned to choosing between different forms of inequality. Always perceptive in its criticisms, it has a genuine non-polemical feel about the current predicament of the European Left. A lively, energetic and intelligent analysis. --Donald Sassoon One of the most outstanding recent works on social democracy. Moschonas analyses with extreme accuracy the 'great transformation' of this major political force through its multiple dimensions. --Gerard Grunberg "This excellent book maps out the profound doubts about social democratic identity at a time when the parties in question appear resigned to choosing between different forms of inequality. Always perceptive in its criticisms, it has a genuine non-polemical feel about the current predicament of the European Left. A lively, energetic and intelligent analysis."--Donald Sassoon "One of the most outstanding recent works on social democracy. Moschonas analyses with extreme accuracy the 'great transformation' of this major political force through its multiple dimensions."--Gerard Grunberg

The focal point for this study is the emergent 'new social democracy' of the twenty-first century. The right appears wildly disorientated by the dramatic modernisation of a political tradition dating back to the 'Second International' and the nineteenth century. The author examines the transformations of recent years, which have affected every aspect of the social democratic phenomenon, from programmes and policies to organisation and membership.