After the Third Way: The Future of Social Democracy in Europe

by Olaf Cramme (Editor), Patrick Diamond (Editor)

Overview

Olaf Cramme is Director of Policy Network and a Visiting Fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics. Previously, he worked as a Parliamentary Researcher at the Houses of Parliament. Patrick Diamond is Senior Research Fellow at Policy Network. He is also a Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford. He was formerly Head of Policy Planning in 10 Downing Street and Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848859937
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/29/2012
Series:	Policy Network
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Olaf Cramme is Director of Policy Network. Previously, he was Lecturer in European Politics at London Metropolitan University and worked as a Parliamentary Researcher at the Houses of Parliament. He has published widely on global governance, the future of the European Union and European social democracy. He holds a PhD in European Studies from London Metropolitan University and studied history, politics and international relations at the University of Heidelberg and at the University Paris-Sorbonne. Patrick Diamond is Senior Research Fellow at Policy Network. He is also a Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford. He was formerly Head of Policy Planning in 10 Downing Street and Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister. Diamond has spent ten years as a Special Adviser in various roles at the heart of British Government, including No. 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office, the Northern Ireland Office, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) where he served as Group Director of Strategy. Tobias Durr is a German political scientist and journalist. He Editor-in-Chief of the magazine "Berliner Republik". He holds a PhD from the Georg-August-Universitat, Gottingen and writes regularly for the media, including the newspaper Die Zeit.

Table of Contents

Preface
Olaf Cramme & Patrick Diamond

The Guiding Purpose of Centre-Left Politics


1 From Fatalism to Fraternity: Governing Purpose and the Good Society
Patrick Diamond, Policy Network

2 Social Democracy in a Global Era
Luke Martell, University of Sussex

Policy Predicaments

3 The Mechanics of Markets: Politics, Economics and Finance
John Kay, London School of Economics

4 Debt and Deficits: The Quest for Economic Competence
Andrew Gamble, University of Cambridge

5 Social Democracy at the End of the Welfare State?
Peter Gooby-Taylor, University of Kent

6 Building Sustainable Solidarity: Institutional Legitimacy and Social Trust
Bo Rothstein, Gothenburg University

7 Progress and Social Policy: Two and a Half Cheers for Education
Lane Kenworthy, University of Arizona

8 Social Cohesion, Culture Politics and the Impact of Migration
Mark Elchardus, University of Brussels & Rene Cuperus, Wiardi Beckman Stichting

9 Identity, Community and a Politics of Recognition
Mike Kenny, University of Sheffield

Governance and Politics

10 The Politics of European Integration
Olaf Cramme, Policy Network

11 After the Mass Party: Progressive Coalitions for a Fragmented Left?
Frank Decker & Volker Best, University of Bonn

12 Back to the Future: Towards a Red-Green Politics
John McTernan, political strategist

13 The Squeezed Middle and the New Inequality
Liam Byrne, UK Labour Party

14 Coming to terms with the Challenges to Internationalism
John Lloyd, The Financial Times

15 Citizen Engagement and the Quest for Solidarity
Henry Tam, Cambridge University

16 Cooperation, Creativity and Equality: Key Concepts for a New Social Democratic Era
Robert Misik, independent political analyst & Tobias Dürr, Berliner Republik


Afterword
Olaf Cramme & Patrick Diamond