Meyer / Hinchman The Theory of Social Democracy

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-5461-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

The ascendancy of neo-liberalism in different parts of the worldhas put social democracy on the defensive. Its adherents lack aclear rationale for their policies. Yet a justification for socialdemocracy is implicit in the United Nations Covenants on HumanRights, ratified by most of the worlds countries. The covenantscommit all nations to guarantee that their citizens shall enjoy thetraditional formal rights; but they likewise pledge governments tomake those rights meaningful in the real world by providing socialsecurity and cultural recognition to every person.
This new book provides a systematic defence of social democracyfor our contemporary global age. The authors argue that the claimsto legitimation implicit in democratic theory can be honored onlyby social democracy; libertarian democracies are defective infailing to protect their citizens adequately against social,economic, and environmental risks that only collective action canobviate. Ultimately, social democracy provides both a fairer andmore stable social order.
But can social democracy survive in a world characterized bypervasive processes of globalization? This book asserts thatglobalization need not undermine social democracy if it isharnessed by international associations and leavened by principlesof cultural respect, toleration, and enlightenment. The structuresof social democracy must, in short, be adapted to the exigencies ofglobalization, as has already occurred in countries with the mostsuccessful social-democratic practices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meyer, Thomas

Hinchman, Lewis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Contents
* Introduction
* I. Political Theory
* 1. Social Rights, Risks and Obligations
* 2. Regulation, Participation and Actors
* II. Political Economy
* 3. The Social Market Economy
* 4. A Right-Based Welfare State
* III. The Politics of Globalization
* 5. Progressive Globalization
* IV. Cultural Foundations
* 6. The Universalism of Social Democracy
* 7. Cultural Divergence and Social Citizenship
* V. Theory and Practice
* 8. Libertarian and Social Democracies Compared
* 9. Defective and Consolidated Democracy
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Detailed Table of Contents
* Introduction
* I. Political Theory
* 1. Social Rights, Risks and Obligations
* 1.1 Contradictions in Political Liberalism
* 1.2 Social Citizenship
* 1.3 Universal Fundamental Rights
* 1.4 Social Risks and Fundamental Rights
* 1.5 Self-Reliance and Civic Duties
* 1.6 Social Democracy and Sustainability
* 1.7 Justice and Political Integration
* * 2. Regulation, Participation and Actors
* 2.1 Political Duties
* 2.2 Actors, Systems, and Strategies
* 2.3 Political Actors in Social Democracy
* 2.4 Political Steering and Social Democracy
* 2.5 Civil Society and Liberal Democracy
* II. Political Economy
* 3. The Social Market Economy
* 3.1 Fundamental Rights and Political Economy
* 3.2 Public Goods and Civil Rights
* 3.3 The Market-State Complex
* 3.4 Imbedding the Economy
* 3.5 Varieties of Capitalism
* 3.6 Types of Capitalism Compared
* 3.7 The Social Market Economy
* 3.8 Social Market Economy and Globalization
* 4. A Rights-Based Welfare State
* 4.1 Social Security Regimes
* 4.2 Welfare State and Welfare Society
* 4.3 Labour and Human Dignity
* 4.4 Education as a Crucial Resource
* 4.5 Perspectives on Sustainability
* III. The Politics of Globalization
* 5. Progressive Globalization
* 5.1 SocialDemocracy and Globalization
* 5.2 Global Citizenship
* 5.3 Global Governance
* 5.4 The Global Imbedding of Markets
* 5.5 Globalization and Political Contingency
* 5.6 Shaping and Coping
* * IV. Cultural Foundations
* 6. The Universalism of Social Democracy
* 7. Cultural Divergence and Social Citizenship
* 7.1 Multiculturalism and Political Rights
* 7.2 Cultural Difference and Social Citizenship
* V. Theory and Practice
* 8. Libertarian and Social Democracies Compared
* 9. Defective and Consolidated Democracy
* Conclusion
* Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

T.Meyer, Professor of Political Science, University of Dortmund
L.P.Hinchman