ABSTRACT
The aim in this chapter is to use the real definition of ‘traditional’ social democratic party relations, developed in Chapter 2, as the conceptual basis for an analytical narrative charting the transformation from ‘traditional’ to ‘new’ social democracy in the cases of the UK, Sweden, France, Italy and Spain. In each case, the aim is to identify the way in which the structure of social relations that constituted ‘traditional’ social democratic parties, and in particular the tensions they gave rise to, generated the transformation to ‘new’ social democracy.
