00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004668 20221020015312 0010-0520004668 221020################|##########|#eng## 9780415438209 eng 320.53 320.53 MER s Merkel, Wolfgang [et.al.] Social Democracy in Power : The Capacity to Reform / Wolfgang Merkel [et.al.] New York : Routledge, 2008 xvii, 309p. : : illus. ; 24 cm. Indeks : p.306-309 p.278-305 This book compares and explores how social democratic government have had to adapt, and also whether they have successfully managed to uphold old social democratic goals and values in the light of these challenges. It examines the policy measures of social democratic parties in democratic goals and tools, in particular, fiscal, employment, and social policy, in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark. They identify three policy patterns in social democratic governments: traditional, modernized, and liberalized social democracy and provide a comparative account of the explanatory power of the national context for policy adopted by social democratic parties. In some cases differences in policy and performance between the six governments correspond to the programmatic position of the social democratic party, they are primarily attributable - in this order - to the specific structure of national party competition, to the behaviour of trade unions, and to institutional veto points. Socialism - Europe Comparative government Social democracy - Europe 10387/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10386/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10386/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10387/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10387/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10386/MKRI-P/XI-2008