Hard Choices Paperback - 2001 - 1st Edition
by Christopher Pierson
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Details
- Title Hard Choices
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge, U.K.
- Date 2001-05-08
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # AVS-9780745619859
- ISBN 9780745619859 / 0745619851
- Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 9.06 x 6.02 x 0.52 in (23.01 x 15.29 x 1.32 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Socialism, Giddens, Anthony
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00011731
- Dewey Decimal Code 320.531
First line
From the rear cover
The first half of the book restores some of the complexity to social democracy's past and shows that it was much more subtle, varied and intelligent than its latter-day critics suppose. Turning to the present, the second half of the book shows how a few contemporary half-truths - relating to globalization and demographic change - have been used to justify the abandonment of the defining core of a social democratic politics. The book does not argue that 'nothing has really changed'. In fact, a great deal has changed and policy-makers have to adjust to a range of new circumstances, constraints (and opportunities). But those who exhort us simply to abandon the 'traditional' terrain of the centre-left are wrong. Social democracy remains just what it always was - a politics of messy compromises and hard choices.
This book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars in politics, social policy and political sociology, as well as the interested general reader.