Overview

Will membership in the European Community stand in the way of social democratic reform strategies? Are EC market liberalizations threatening national social democratic achievements? Questions like these have characterized the sceptical approach of many Western European social democratic parties to European integration. Not least this has been the case in Britain and Denmark, two of the most reluctant EC member states. Yet, by the early 1990s, both the British Labour Party and the Danish Social Democrats had developed policies on the European Community advocating a strengthening of the EC in a number of respects. The book examines the reasons for this development. The analysis demonstrates that the two parties' increasingly positive attitude towards a strengthened EC constitutes a political result of the ever-growing economic interconnectedness in Western Europe. The development also results from the unwillingness of social democratic parties to halt European integration at the market liberalist objective of the Single European Market.

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Author:   Jens Henrik Haahr
Publisher:   Aarhus University Press
Imprint:   Aarhus University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9788772884493

ISBN 10:   8772884495
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   19 December 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Social democracy and regional integration - theories and propositions: party behaviour and social democracy; social democracy and European integration. Part 2 The British Labour Party, the Danish SDP and the European Community: Labour and the EC until 1980 - reluctance and internal disagreement; from withdrawal to the rejection of the Single Act; towards Maastricht - Labour and the EC 1987-1990; the SDP and the EC 1961-1982; the Single Market and beyond; the SDP and the new Europe - 1989-1990. Part 3 Social democracy and European integration - conclusions and perspectives: the EC policies of the Labour Party and the SDP; internal dynamics and external determinants in the EC integration process.

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