Politics Against Markets: The Social Democratic Road to Power

by Gøsta Esping-Andersen

Book Overview

This comparative analysis of Scandinavian social democracies argues that the fate of socialist parties is decided, to a significant degree, by their own policies and reforms_not solely by the changes in social structure emphasized in previous studies. Combining quantitative analysis and historical case studies to demonstrate the electoral effects of party policy, Gosta Esping-Andersen formulates a theory that is applicable not only to Scandinavia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691028427
• ISBN13: 9780691028422
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"