The social democratic image of society
Subtitle: a study of the achievements and origins of Scandinavian social democracy in comparative perspective
By: Francis G. Castles
Series: Routledge revivals; Routledge revivals
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780203092316
Subjects: Socialism; Social policy; Politics and government; Labor movement; Politique et gouvernement; Mouvement ouvrier; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Political Ideologies; Communism & Socialism
Description: 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 government', for just as importantly, the author shows that a political success grounded on the symbiotic relationship between party and trade union movement has been the foundation for a higher level of welfare state provision and egalitarian strivi.
Notes: Title from PDF title page (viewed October 1, 2009).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The political dominance of Social Democracy; title: Equality and welfare in capitalist society; title: Paradoxes of Scandanavian political development.