The Social Democratic Image of Society (Routledge Revivals): A Study of the Achievements and Origins of Scandinavian Social Democracy in Comparative P

by Francis G. Castles

This book, originally published in 1978, constitutes a genuinely comparative study of the world's only truly succesful democratic socialist parties: the Social Democraic Parties of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The measure of achievement is not merely political success, the fact that in Scandinavia the Social Democrats have become 'natural parties of goverment', for just as importantly, the author shows that a political success grounded on the symbiotic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415561159
• ISBN13: 9780415561150
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"