Olle Törnquist

In Search of New Social Democracy (eBook, PDF)

Insights from the South - Implications for the North

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Why is the classical social democratic vision of development based on social justice by democratic means losing ground? Why was it so difficult to renew, even in the context of the third wave of democracy in the South? How does this matter in the North too, and how might it be reinvented?

This accessible book brings to life major insights gained through written sources and interviews with a large range of activists and political protagonists in the southern cases of Indonesia, India, and the Philippines - but also in the northern social democratic stronghold of Sweden. By considering the experiences in view of the basics of Social Democracy and a broader comparative framework, Olle Törnquist arrives at globally relevant conclusions. Crucially, Törnquist also puts forward suggestions for how to achieve this reinvention social democracy. Through implementation of broad alliances in the Global South, supported by the Global North, for transformative rights and welfare reforms - universal, participatory and impartially implemented - precursors to social economic growth pacts can thus be effected.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755639793
• Artikelnr.: 62402626

Autorenporträt

Olle Törnquist is Professor of Politics and Development, University of Oslo. He has written widely on radical politics, development and democratisation. His main empirical focus since the 1970s has been Indonesia, India and the Philippines, with Scandinavia and South Africa and Brazil as reference cases.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part I: Introduction Ch 1: The Mystery - and How to Solve It Ch 2:
Social Democracy Ch 3: Cases and Contextual Puzzles Ch 4: Progress and
Demise of the World's Largest Popular Reform Movement in Indonesia Ch 5:
The Rise and Stagnation of Kerala's Emancipatory Left Ch 6: The 'People
Power' Mystery in the Philippines Ch 7: Effects in the North: From
Internationalism to 'Social Democracy in one Country'- the Case of Sweden
Part III: Challenges of Third Generation Social Democracy Ch 8: Philippine
Experiments for a Democratic Left Ch 9: Rise and Demotion of the Indonesian
Democracy Movement Ch 10 Dilemmas of Deepening Democracy after Suharto Ch
11: Kerala Renewal of Social Democracy Ch 12: Counter Movements in India?
Ch 13: Inconclusive Left-of-Centre Politics in the Philippines Ch 14:
Whither Reformist Populism? The Indonesian Experience Ch 15: Implications
and Options in the North: the Swedish Stalemate Part IV: Reinventing Social
Democracy Ch 16: Lessons for New Social Democracy Ch 17: Towards a Roadmap