Which Way Left for Social Democracy: New Narratives in the Shadow of the Global Financial Crisis

Bourdouvalis examines how European democratic responses to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis demonstrated alternative forms of social democracy.

The book uses an interpretive case study analysis of democratic responses to the 2008 crisis and focuses on how movements in Spain, Greece and Iceland sought to confront and resist neoliberal post- democratic capitalism. It covers protests and social mobilisation against austerity politics between 2008 and 2017, highlighting not only the inherent ten...