The Trammels of Tradition: Social Democracy in Britain, France, and Germany
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The Trammels of Tradition: Social Democracy in Britain, France, and Germany
By (Author) Carl C. Hodge
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
30th April 1994
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Political parties and party platforms
History of ideas
Political structure and processes
320.5315094
Physical Properties
Hardback
200
Description
The development of social democratic politics in the dominant states of Western Europe has been influenced by both domestic and international forces. A succinct history of the expanding popularity of social democracy in these countries, this work explains why political parties, whose electoral following was rooted in the growth of the industrial working class, failed to become dominant parliamentary forces in their respective political systems. The book concludes by discussing the implications of the social democratic past in Europe for the future of socialist politics in a post-Cold War context.
Reviews
The material presented here offers a fresh comparative perspective and a balanced explanation of social democracy's political eclipse in the 1930s.-The International History Review
"The material presented here offers a fresh comparative perspective and a balanced explanation of social democracy's political eclipse in the 1930s."-The International History Review
Author Bio
CARL CAVANAGH HODGE is Assistant Professor at Okanagan University College in Kelowna, British Columbia. He is the co-editor of Shepherd of Democracy: America and Germany in the Twentieth Century (Greenwood, 1992).
