Transformations of European Social Democracies since the 1980s
Open Workshop
The aim of this workshop is to explore in more detail the roots, characteristics and consequences of the transformations of European Social Democracies taking place since the 1980s in a European perspective. More specifically, the aim is to discuss in a methodological and theoretical perspective how we can study and interpret the recent history of the topic at issue, and explore and compare specific developments that have taken place in Social Democratic parties in Great Britain, Scandinavia and Continental Europe.
Program
09.30-09.45
Welcome and presentation
09.45-11.05
Discussion of Stephanie Lee Mudge:
Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism
(Harvard University Press, 2018)
11.05-11.15
Coffee break
11.15-12.30
Discussion of Peter Maier:
Ruling the Void: The Hollowing Out of Western Democracies
(Verso, 2013)
12.30-13.30
Lunch
13.30-15.15
David Bailey and Joshua Rahtz
German and British Social Democracies
15.15-15.35
Coffee and cake
15.35-17.20
Jenny Andersson and Niklas Olsen
Nordic Social Democracies
17.20-17.30
Summing up
18.30
Dinner at Il Buco
The workshop is open, however registration is necessary!
Please contact Niklas Olsen: nolsen@hum.ku.dk