Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface: Social Democracy in Our Times; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Part I Introduction; Building the Good Society; Part II Social Democracy in Europe; 1 Social Democratic Trajectories in Modern Europe: One or Many Families?; 2 The Europeanization of Social Democracy: Politics without Policy and Policy without Politics; 3 The Preconditions of Social Europe and the Tasks of Social Democracy; Part III A New Political Economy; 4 A Decent Capitalism for a Good Society; 5 As Much Market as Possible; as Much State as Necessary
Part IV Re-Framing Social Democracy6 The New Language of Social Democracy; 7 Social Democracy and Trade Unions; 8 The Greatest Happiness Principle: An Imperative for Social Democracy?; Part V Political Futures; 9 Dispossession; 10 The Challenge of European Social Democracy: Communitarianism and Cosmopolitanism United; 11 Not without a Future; 12 The National in the Network Society: UK Uncut, the English Defence League and the Challenge for Social Democracy; Part VI Conclusion; The Way Ahead; Appendix: Building the Good Society -- The Project of the Democratic Left; Bibliography; Index
Summary
European social democracy is in crisis. In the last decade it has ceased to be about either society or democracy. The authors explore its values, how it can be revived and what kind of political economy it requires to thrive. This book includes a foreword by the two leaders of the 'Building the Good Society' project, Andrea Nahles and Jon Cruddas
