European Socialists and the State in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 1st ed. Edition Mathieu Fulla

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030415392
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030415396
• Author(s): Mathieu Fulla, Marc Lazar

This edited volume promotes a comparative and transnational approach to the complex and ambiguous relationship between West European socialism and the contemporary state over the longue durée. It encourages a better understanding of socialism while also casting an original light on the history of the contemporary state in Europe. Socialists have been a prime political force since the late nineteenth century through to the present. Through their strength, their presence at the heart of societies, their dynamism, inventiveness, and influence, they have left their mark on the European physiognomy and helped to forge part of its identity. This is particularly true where the welfare state is concerned, and the role played by the state in constructing, embedding, and extending this social model. Surprisingly, there has been no research aiming to systematically analyse the relationship between socialism and the state. This volume fills a gap in knowledge by rejecting the media simplification and political polemic maintained by opponents of socialism – and sometimes by socialists themselves – which systematically links socialism with “statism”. It focuses on numerous case studies involving France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Austria, Germany, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, and highlights the diversity of organisations within European socialism. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that the fate of this political culture depends on the socialist parties themselves but also on any new configurations that states may assume. Conversely, the future of states will also depend partly on the choices made by socialists, if they still exist and still have the means to shape decisions and make their voices heard.

Table contents:

1. European Socialists and the State: A Comparative and Transnational Approach
Part I. Using the State to Democratise Society
2. Using the State to Democratise it. Introduction to Part I
3. Between Challenging the Authoritarian State and Democratising It: German Social Democracy, 1914–1945
4. French Socialists and the State, 1905–2017
5. The Planist Temptation: Belgian Social Democracy and the State During the Great Depression, c. 1929–c. 1936
6. Paradoxes of Hegemony: Scandinavian Social Democracy and the State
Part II. Socialists and Civil Servants
7. Socialists and Civil Servants. Introduction to Part II
8. The British Labour Party and the Civil Service in the Twentieth Century
9. Social Democracy, Labour Unions and Civil Service in West Germany since the Second World War
10. The French Socialist Party, Civil Servants and the State. A Comparative Approach to Social Reforms Between the Popular Front Period (1936–1938) and the Early Years of the Mitterrand Presidency (1981–1983)
11. Socialism, the State and Civil Service in Spain: Two Experiences in Perspective (Second Republic and Democratic Transition)
12. The Swedish Social Democracy: Civil Servants, Social Engineers and Welfare Bureaucrats
13. The Divorce between Public-Sector Employees and West European Socialist Parties
Part III. Socialists and Changes in Capitalism and States
14. Socialists and Changes in Capitalism and States: Introduction to Part III
15. French Socialists, Capitalism and the State: A Unique Approach within West European Social Democracy?
16. From Marxism to “Agenda 2010”: German Social Democratic Notions of the State from Its Founding until Today
17. “K. u. k. Social Democracy” Reloaded: Austria’s SPÖ and the State After 1945
18. The Swedish Social Democrats, Reform Socialism and the state after the Golden Era
19. What’s Left of Blairism? The Labour Party’s Changing Conception of the State since the 1980s
20. The Italian Socialist Party from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s: Socialists and a Weak State
21. Superficial Social Democracy: PASOK, the State and the Shipwreck of the Greek Economy

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