Reexamining interwar social democracy. -- Evaluating the role of ideas. -- Sweden's political development and the programmatic beliefs of the SAP. -- Germany's political development and the programmatic beliefs of the SPD. -- Sweden's path to democracy. -- Germany's path to democracy. -- The origins of social democratic hegemony. -- The collapse of German democracy. -- Understanding interwar social democracy
Summary
In addition to revising our view of the interwar period and the building of European democracies, this book cuts against the grain of most current theorizing in political science by explicitly discussing when and how ideas influence political behavior. Even though German and Swedish social democrats belonged to the some transnational political movement and faced similar political and social conditions in their respective countries before and after World War I, they responded very differently to the challenges of democratization and the Great Depression - with crucial consequences for the fates of their countries and the world at large. Explaining why these two social democratic parties acted so differently is the primary task of this book. Berman's answer is that they had very different ideas about politics and economicswhat she calls their programmatic beliefs
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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