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Left-leaning Political Parties Play An Important Role As Representatives Of The Poor And Disempowered. They Once Did So By Promising Protections From The Forces Of Capital And The Market's Tendencies To Produce Inequality. But In The 1990s They Gave Up On Protection, Asking Voters To Adapt To A Market-driven World. Meanwhile, New, Extreme Parties Began To Promise Economic Protections Of Their Own--albeit In An Angry, Anti-immigrant Tone. To Better Understand Today's Strange New Political World, Stephanie L. Mudge's Leftism Reinvented Analyzes The History Of The Swedish And German Social Democrats, The British Labour Party, And The American Democratic Party. Breaking With An Assumption That Parties Simply Respond To Forces Beyond Their Control, Mudge Argues That Left Parties' Changing Promises Expressed The Worldviews Of Different Kinds Of Experts. To Understand How Left Parties Speak, We Have To Understand The People Who Speak For Them. Leftism Reinvented Shows How Keynesian Economists Came To Speak For Left Parties By The Early 1960s. These Economists Saw Their Task In Terms Of Discretionary, Politically-sensitive Economic Management. But In The 1980s A New Kind Of Economist, Who

Author

Stephanie L. Mudge

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674971813

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, History