The Trammels of Tradition: Social Democracy in Britain, France, and Germany

by Carl C. Hodge

Overview

This book is a succinct history of social democracy in the major states of Western Europe that discusses both the domestic and international factors influencing social democratic politics. It explains why political parties, whose electoral following was rooted in the growing industrial working class, nevertheless failed to become dominant parliamentary forces in their respective political systems. The book concludes by discussing the implication of the social democratic past in Europe for the future of socialist politics in a post-Cold War context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313287831
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/30/1994
Series:	Contributions in Political Science , #34
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)
Lexile:	1750L (what's this?)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Introduction
Working Class Politics in the Great Powers
The Price of National Legitimacy
German Socialism and the Rout of Weimar Democracy
The Adolescence of British Labor
A Popular Front for the French Republic
The Alternative Party of Government
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index