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What´s Left Now?: The History and Future of Social Democracy
Andrew Hindmoor
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Description for What´s Left Now?: The History and Future of Social Democracy
Hardback. An unexpected story of how Britain has and has not changed, how things might not be as bad as we routinely think they are and how we really do need to pause before saying sweeping things about neoliberalism. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW3; JPFF. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Our sense of history shapes how we think about ourselves. One of the distinguishing features of the left in Britain is that it holds to a remorselessly bleak and miserabilist view of our recent political history -- one in which Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979 marked the start of a still-continuing fall from political grace made evident by the triumph of a free market get-what-you-can neoliberal ideology, dizzying levels of inequality, social decay, rampant individualism, state authoritarianism, and political corruption. The left does not like what has happened to us and it does not like what we have ... Read more
Our sense of history shapes how we think about ourselves. One of the distinguishing features of the left in Britain is that it holds to a remorselessly bleak and miserabilist view of our recent political history -- one in which Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979 marked the start of a still-continuing fall from political grace made evident by the triumph of a free market get-what-you-can neoliberal ideology, dizzying levels of inequality, social decay, rampant individualism, state authoritarianism, and political corruption. The left does not like what has happened to us and it does not like what we have ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198805991
SKU
V9780198805991
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About Andrew Hindmoor
Andrew Hindmoor is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. He grew up in Sheffield where he currently resides, and is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland. He is winner of the 2014 Harrison Prize for the best article in Political Studies and winner of the 2015 prize for the best article published in the British ... Read more
Reviews for What´s Left Now?: The History and Future of Social Democracy
At a time when polarised argument on social media has obscured the fact that politics is usually cast in shades of grey, [Hindmoors] nuanced case ought to be welcome.
John Harris, New Statesman
An extraordinary timely moment to remind the world of how politics in the real world affects the ability to make positive change and how winning ... Read more
John Harris, New Statesman
An extraordinary timely moment to remind the world of how politics in the real world affects the ability to make positive change and how winning ... Read more