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Author:   Geoff Dow ,  Winton Higgins
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.670kg
ISBN:  

9783034314459

ISBN 10:   3034314450
Pages:   477
Publication Date:   03 December 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents: The struggle over market society: from economic liberalism to the defence of politics – Industrial society and social democratic politics: political organisation in Sweden – Wigforss’s democratic commitment: repositioning socialist politics – The democratisation and politicisation of capitalism: from British collectivist liberalism to Swedish social democracy in the 1920s – Statecraft, employment and welfare in the 1930s and 1940s – Citizenship and the social question in the postwar period – Trade union organisation as the bearer of substantive rationality – Comparative evolution of social democratic possibilities – The responsibilities of labour in social democratic politics – The state and deliberation: on the economic possibilities of politics.

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Winton Higgins and Geoff Dow have each taught political science and political economy courses for many years – Higgins at Macquarie University (but now a visiting fellow at UTS); and Dow at The University of Queensland. Winton Higgins is a graduate in arts, law and politics from Sydney, Stockholm and London universities. Geoff Dow is a graduate in economics, sociology and politics from Queensland.

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