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The future of European social democracy: building the good society

How can European social democracy recover its values and build a political economy for the good society?

Henning Meyer and Jonathan Rutherford · Palgrave Macmillan · 2012

Abstract

Edited by Henning Meyer and Jonathan Rutherford, the volume argues that European social democracy lost sight of society and democracy after embracing liberal economic principles. Contributors explore its values, how it can be revived and what political economy it needs, building on the ‘Building the Good Society’ project led by Jon Cruddas and Andrea Nahles.

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