• DOI:10.1353/JOD.2019.0038
Corpus ID: 199293070

Populism and the Decline of Social Democracy

@article{Berman2019PopulismAT,
  title={Populism and the Decline of Social Democracy},
  author={S. Berman and Sheri Maria Snegovaya},
  journal={Journal of Democracy},
  year={2019},
  volume={30},
  pages={19 - 5}
}

S. Berman, Sheri Maria Snegovaya

Published 2019

Economics

Journal of Democracy

Abstract:Across Europe and many other parts of the world, traditional parties of the left seem to be in terminal decline. While there are many reasons for this, we argue that the most important was the left's shift to the center on economic issues during the late twentieth century. Although this shift made some sense in the short-term, over the long-term it had deleterious, perhaps even fatal, consequences: It watered down the left's distinctive historical profile; rendered socialist and social… CONTINUE READING

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