July 27, 2021

Events

The Future of Social Democracy

In July, Phenomenal World hosted a discussion on the past, present, and future of social democracy inspired by our first book project: Market Economy, Market Society: Interviews and Essays on the Decline of European Social Democracy.

The conversation featured Stephanie Mudge, Adam Przeworski, and Wolfgang Streeck, and was moderated by Waltraud Schelkle.

View a recording of the event here.

Further Reading
Revolution, Reform, and Resignation

In the 1980s, the left abandoned its language of transformation. Can it be regained?

Democracy or the Market

Third wayism and the problem of representation.

François Mitterrand’s Austerity Turn

The rise and fall of the French Road to socialism.


In the 1980s, the left abandoned its language of transformation. Can it be regained?

Some time in 1991 I was invited to give a talk to the Andalusian Confederation of the Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party (PSOE). Afterwards, the secretary of the confederation walked me…

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Third wayism and the problem of representation.

The problem of democratic representation has always turned on the question of the “have-nots”—that is, not only those without wealth and property, but also those marginalized on the basis of…

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The rise and fall of the French Road to socialism.

The history of French socialism is filled with famous and heroic dates: 1789; 1848; 1871 1936; 1968. But less well remembered is another date of great significance: 1981. It was…

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