ABSTRACT
Panitch, Leo, Social Democracy and Industrial Militancy: The Labour Party, the Trade Unions and Incomes Policy, 1945-1974, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976
Przeworski, Adam, Capitalism and Social Democracy, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985
Sassoon, Donald, One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century, London and New York: Tauris, 1996
Scharpf, Fritz W., Crisis and Choice in European Social Democracy, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1991
Since the late 19th century, social democracy has evolved gradually as a form of parliamentary socialism seeking to reconcile the pursuit of immediate reformist goals and a degree of attachment to socialist ideals. Later, Keynesian social democracy led to the partial fusion of democratic socialism and political liberalism. The works discussed below provide important analytical and, in some cases, critical accounts of the history, electoral development, and policy performance of social democratic parties in Europe.
