Social Democracy After the Cold War

Despite the market triumphalism that greeted the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet empire seemed initially to herald new possibilities for social democracy. In the 1990s, with a new era of peace and economic prosperity apparently imminent, people discontented with the realities of glob...

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Main Author: Bryan Evans and Ingo Schmidt (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Athabasca University Press 2012
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