Overview

This book is a succinct history of social democracy in the major states of Western Europe that discusses both the domestic and international factors influencing social democratic politics. It explains why political parties, whose electoral following was rooted in the growing industrial working class, nevertheless failed to become dominant parliamentary forces in their respective political systems. The book concludes by discussing the implication of the social democratic past in Europe for the future of socialist politics in a post-Cold War context.

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Author:   Carl C. Hodge
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Volume:   No. 342.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9780313287831

ISBN 10:   031328783
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   30 April 1994
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Working Class Politics in the Great Powers The Price of National Legitimacy German Socialism and the Rout of Weimar Democracy The Adolescence of British Labor A Popular Front for the French Republic The Alternative Party of Government Epilogue Bibliography Index

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?The material presented here offers a fresh comparative perspective and a balanced explanation of social democracy's political eclipse in the 1930s.?-The International History Review

Author Information

CARL CAVANAGH HODGE is Assistant Professor at Okanagan University College in Kelowna, British Columbia. He is the co-editor of Shepherd of Democracy?: America and Germany in the Twentieth Century (Greenwood, 1992).

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