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'Over the years that great democrat, David Marquand, has applied his intellectual prowess to the most pressing political challenges of the times. In this book his huge contributions to public discourse are analysed and savoured. A wonderful tribute to a great man.' Baroness Helena Kennedy QC 'This well-timed book honours David Marquand - Britain's foremost Social Democratic public intellectual, politician, well-known journalist and academic. The essays are readable, lively and provocative, with new insights into social democracy in Britain in the past and today. Now, party politics, top-down government policies, inequality and populism, Brexit and capitalist-driven globalisation are real challenges to social democracy. 'Bottom-up' citizen engagement is the essential glue for a social democratic society. But how to find and then secure that centre ground in our times of rapid and unsettling changes? This wonderful re-assessment of social democracy in Britain is shaped by Marquand's own life and his deep optimism about citizens' abilities to drive change.' Anne Deighton, Emeritus Professor of European International Politics, University of Oxford 'This collection does more than trace and honour the work and influence of an outstanding and essential scholar. Its range of contributors are testimony to the wide alliance of those David Marquand worked with and influenced. Its contents show us how, as the post-war British political order failed, at least one man on the inside blew a clear and authoritative whistle. They illuminate the historical way he developed his call for morally grounded citizenship and civic republicanism. And they salute how he redefined the meaning and possibilities of democracy and social democracy in Britain. Marquand is everything a public intellectual should be. An elected politician unafraid of standing for office, an experienced academic, a brilliant reviewer, a sweeping, original historian of our age, a devastating polemicist capable of self-reflection and changing his mind. The established powers-that-be may regard his passage from the heart of Labour via Brussels, the SDP and Charter 88 to Plaid Cymru while evading the House of Lords, as a story of marginalisation. Instead, this book shows how his journey and the development of his thought will come to be seen as central - as he kept his nerve when Brexitannia did not.' Anthony Barnett, Co-Founder of openDemocracy and author of The Lure of Greatness: England's Brexit & America's Trump -- .

'Over the years that great democrat, David Marquand, has applied his intellectual prowess to the most pressing political challenges of the times. In this book his huge contributions to public discourse are analysed and savoured. A wonderful tribute to a great man.' Baroness Helena Kennedy QC 'Readable, lively and provocative, with new insights into social democracy in Britain in the past and today. . This wonderful re-assessment is shaped by Marquand's own life and his deep optimism about citizens' abilities to drive change.' Anne Deighton, Emeritus Professor of European International Politics, University of Oxford 'This collection does more than honour the work and influence of an outstanding and essential scholar. It shows us how, as the post-war British political order failed, at least one man on the inside blew a clear and authoritative whistle. . This book shows how his journey and the development of his thought will come to be seen as central -- as he kept his nerve when Brexitannia did not.' Anthony Barnett, Co-Founder of openDemocracy and author of The Lure of Greatness: England's Brexit & America's Trump -- .

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Hans Schattle is Professor of Political Science at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea Jeremy Nuttall is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Kingston University

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