Foundations of Social Democracy
Author | : Julia Bläsius |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Democracy |
ISBN | : 9783868722154 |
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Author | : Julia Bläsius |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Democracy |
ISBN | : 9783868722154 |
Author | : Tobias Gombert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783958618749 |
Author | : Julia Bläsius |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Politics and government |
ISBN | : 9783864980800 |
"Politics needs clear orientation: only those who are able to state their goals clearly will achieve them and inspire others. In keeping with this, this readers on the foundations of social democracy examines the meaning of social democracy in the twenty-first century. What are its underlying values? What are its goals? How can it be applied in practice? The topics in this reader are oriented towards the seminars of the Academy for Social Democracy." - Back cover.
Author | : Eric Blanc |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2021-06-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9004449930 |
This groundbreaking comparative study rediscovers the socialists of Russia’s borderlands, upending conventional interpretations of working-class politics and the Russian Revolution. Researched in eight languages, Revolutionary Social Democracy challenges long-held assumptions by scholars and activists about the dynamics of revolutionary change.
Author | : Thomas Meyer |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2013-09-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0745654614 |
The ascendancy of neo-liberalism in different parts of the world has put social democracy on the defensive. Its adherents lack a clear rationale for their policies. Yet a justification for social democracy is implicit in the United Nations Covenants on Human Rights, ratified by most of the worlds countries. The covenants commit all nations to guarantee that their citizens shall enjoy the traditional formal rights; but they likewise pledge governments to make those rights meaningful in the real world by providing social security and cultural recognition to every person. This new book provides a systematic defence of social democracy for our contemporary global age. The authors argue that the claims to legitimation implicit in democratic theory can be honored only by social democracy; libertarian democracies are defective in failing to protect their citizens adequately against social, economic, and environmental risks that only collective action can obviate. Ultimately, social democracy provides both a fairer and more stable social order. But can social democracy survive in a world characterized by pervasive processes of globalization? This book asserts that globalization need not undermine social democracy if it is harnessed by international associations and leavened by principles of cultural respect, toleration, and enlightenment. The structures of social democracy must, in short, be adapted to the exigencies of globalization, as has already occurred in countries with the most successful social-democratic practices.
Author | : Axel Honneth |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2014-03-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0745680062 |
The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy. Most theories of justice, however, have only attained their high level of justification at great cost. By focusing on purely normative, abstract principles, they become detached from the sphere that constitutes their “field of application” - namely, social reality. Axel Honneth proposes a different approach. He seeks to derive the currently definitive criteria of social justice directly from the normative claims that have developed within Western liberal democratic societies. These criteria and these claims together make up what he terms “democratic ethical life”: a system of morally legitimate norms that are not only legally anchored, but also institutionally established. Honneth justifies this far-reaching endeavour by demonstrating that all essential spheres of action in Western societies share a single feature, as they all claim to realize a specific aspect of individual freedom. In the spirit of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and guided by the theory of recognition, Honneth shows how principles of individual freedom are generated which constitute the standard of justice in various concrete social spheres: personal relationships, economic activity in the market, and the political public sphere. Honneth seeks thereby to realize a very ambitious aim: to renew the theory of justice as an analysis of society.
Author | : Ian Shapiro |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2012-10-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0300189753 |
When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists of the Enlightenment, he examines the arguments put forward by utilitarians, Marxists, and theorists of the social contract. Next he turns to the anti-Enlightenment tradition that stretches from Edmund Burke to contemporary post-modernists. In the last part of the book Shapiro examines partisans and critics of democracy from Plato’s time until our own. He concludes with an assessment of democracy’s strengths and limitations as the font of political legitimacy. The book offers a lucid and accessible introduction to urgent ongoing conversations about the sources of political allegiance.
Author | : Sheri Berman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2006-08-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139457594 |
Political history in the industrial world has indeed ended, argues this pioneering study, but the winner has been social democracy - an ideology and political movement that has been as influential as it has been misunderstood. Berman looks at the history of social democracy from its origins in the late nineteenth century to today and shows how it beat out competitors such as classical liberalism, orthodox Marxism, and its cousins, Fascism and National Socialism by solving the central challenge of modern politics - reconciling the competing needs of capitalism and democracy. Bursting on to the scene in the interwar years, the social democratic model spread across Europe after the Second World War and formed the basis of the postwar settlement. This is a study of European social democracy that rewrites the intellectual and political history of the modern era while putting contemporary debates about globalization in their proper intellectual and historical context.
Author | : Thomas Meyer |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2007-09-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0745641121 |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Political Theory -- 1 Social Rights, Risks, and Obligations -- 2 Regulation, Participation, and Actors -- Part II Political Economy -- 3 The Social Market Economy -- 4 A Rights-Based Welfare State -- Part III The Politics of Globalization -- 5 Progressive Globalization -- Part IV Cultural Foundations -- 6 The Universalism of Social Democracy -- 7 Cultural Divergence and Social Citizenship -- Part V Theory and Practice -- 8 Libertarian and Social Democracies Compared -- 9 Defective and Consolidated Democracy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References and Bibliography -- Index
Author | : John Higley |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2006-07-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0742568555 |
This compelling and convincing study represents the culmination of the authors' several decades of research on the pivotal role played by elites in the success or failure of political regimes. Revising the classical theory of elites and politics, John Higley and Michael Burton distinguish basic types of elites and associated political regimes. They canvas political change during the modern historical and contemporary periods to identify circumstances and ways in which the sine qua non of liberal democracy, a consensually united elite, has formed and persisted. The book considers an impressive body of cases, examining how consensually united elites have fostered forty-five liberal democracies and how disunited or ideologically united elites have thus far prevented liberal democracy in more than one hundred other countries. The authors argue that obstacles to the emergence of elites propitious for liberal democracy are more formidable than democratization enthusiasts recognize. They assess prospects for the transformation of disunited and ideologically united elites where they now exist, ask whether current challenges to Western liberal democracies will undermine their consensually united elites, and explore what the rise of the distinctive elite clustered around George W. Bush may portend for America's liberal democracy. The authors' powerful and important argument reframes our thinking about liberal democracy and questions optimistic assumptions about the prospects for its spread in the twenty-first century.