Rebuilding Social Democracy

Download or read book Rebuilding Social Democracy written by Kevin Hickson and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Labour Party could hardly be more obviously in crisis. Though the party held power from 1997 to 2010, at the end of that period it was intellectually exhausted, and its opposition to the Coalition Government and the subsequent Conservative Government was largely ineffective. This book aims to fix that, offering a clearly defined set of aims and values that the Labour Party can use to rebuild itself and the nation. Rooting the discussion in foundational principles like social justice, equality, welfare, social cohesion, and more, the book offers leading academics a platform from which to begin the revival of center-left thought and practice in Britain.