European Social Democracy During the Global Economic Crisis : Renovation or Resignation?

Cover -- European social democracy during the globaleconomic crisis -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: David J. Bailey, Jean-Michel De Waele, Fabien Escalona and Mathieu Vieira -- Part I The political economy of European social democracy under global economic crisis -- 2 'It does not happen here either': why social democrats fail in the context of the great economic crisis: Fabien Escalona and Mathieu Vieira -- 3 Social democracy and social movements from crisis to crisis: George Ross -- 4 Why the financial crisis has not generated a social democratic alternative in Europe?: Magnus Ryner -- 5 Social democracy in the light of capitalist crises: the case of British Labour: John Callaghan -- Part II National responses to crisis -- 6 Coping with TINA: the Labour Party and the new crisis of capitalism: Philippe Marlière -- 7 Losing social democracy: reflections on the erosion of a paradigmatic case of social democracy: Jenny Andersson -- 8 German social democracy: a popular project and an unpopular party: Ingo Schmidt -- 9 The French Socialist Party (2008-13): not revolutionaries, not luminaries, just 'normal' guys amidst the tempest: Christophe Bouillaud -- 10 Back to the drawing board: the PSOE after the 2011 general election: Paul Kennedy -- 11 Triumph and collapse: PASOK in the wake of the crisis in Greece (2009-13): Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos -- Part III Towards a social democraticEuropean Union? -- 12 Limits of consensus? The Party of European Socialists and the financial crisis: Michael Holmes and Simon Lightfoot -- 13 Palliating terminal social democratic decline at the EU level?: David J. Bailey -- 14 Reforming Europe,renewing social democracy?The PES, the debt crisis and the Euro-parties: Gerassimos Moschonas -- Postface: death by a thousand cuts? -- Index.

Assesses how social democratic parties have responded, at the national as well as at the European Union level, to the 2008 financial crash.

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