Socialism & Left-of-centre Democratic Ideologies

'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of this region, and about the human impulse towards p...

Black shows how Eleanor Roosevelt, after being freed from the constraints imposed by her role in the White House, eagerly expanded her career and u...

The well-known historian and political scientist Zeev Sternhell here advances a radically new interpretation of the founding of modern Israel. The ...

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) was one of the most original political thinkers in Western Marxism and an exceptional intellectual. Arrested and impris...

This book examines the transition within the Japanese party system that has seen the demise of ‘the old socialists’, the Japan Socialist Party, and...

Performing a political identity usually involves more than just casting a vote. For Left-wingers in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus – countries that emer...

Starting with the premise that it is possible to say something significantly new about the 1960s and the New Left, the contributors to this volume ...

Starting with the premise that it is possible to say something significantly new about the 1960s and the New Left, the contributors to this volume ...

"Labor's War at Home" examines a critical period in American politics and labor history, beginning with the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 throu...

First published in 1952 then out of print in recent years, this classic account of the American Left is once again available. In his introduction t...

Placing Chinese Community Party history in the realm of social history and comparative politics, this text studies the roots of the policy failures...

Placing Chinese Community Party history in the realm of social history and comparative politics, this text studies the roots of the policy failures...

New Labour is back in power - where now? What should the party's agenda be? How should the centre-left react to a changed external world marked by ...

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of current debates about democracy across the globe. Since the political turmoil in Eastern Europe bega...

This collections brings together expert contributions to dissect the key political concept of the Third Way in theory and practice, assessing its d...

This contribution to economic philosophy considers Marx's pronouncements on the organization of future society, and in this context re-examines the...

In this book Paul Hirst makes a major contribution to democratic thinking, advocating "associative democracy"; the belief that human welfare and li...

This book tells the fascinating story of the reemergence of the American political left over the last quarter century in the form of the new Progre...

Here is the first scholarly study of the life and thought of Benoit Malon (1841-1893), the most persuasive and visible spokesman for reformist soci...

Many theorists have addressed a central concern of current political theory by contending that the dithering intellectualism of left politics preve...

In his most explicitly political work to date, Pierre Bourdieu speaks out against the new myths of our time - especially those associated with neo-...

The life and works of William Morris continue to excite the imaginations of fresh generations of scholars working in many traditions, from the hist...

Jean-Paul Sartre originally made the term engagement a part of the existentialist vocabulary following WWII. It imples the responsibility of interv...

The New Labour Reader draws together in one accessible volume a set of authoritative interpretations and accounts of New Labour in government, incl...

Joel Krieger, one of America's most perceptive observers of British politics, provides an in-depth study of New Labour.

Many theorists have addressed a central concern of current political theory by contending that the dithering intellectualism of left politics preve...

In his most explicitly political work to date, Pierre Bourdieu speaks out against the new myths of our time - especially those associated with neo-...

As the twenty-first century dawned, social democratic parties across Europe and beyond found themselves newly, and rather surprisingly, in the asce...

The New Labour Reader draws together in one accessible volume a set of authoritative interpretations and accounts of New Labour in government, incl...

In the early twentieth century, the Labour Party was a growing political force in Britain. Founded in 1900, as an amalgamation of a number of small...

The Triumph of Politics offers a comparative and historical interpretation of Venezuela's Chavez, Bolivia's Morales and Ecuador's Correa - South Am...

The search for social democracy has not been an easy one over the last three decades. The economic crisis of the 1970s, and the consequent rise of ...

This book is the first definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force which drew its support from Protest...

This book is the second in the three volume set The Labour governments 1964-1970 and concentrates on Britain's international policy under the Labou...

Capitalists and Conquerors is a series of path-breaking essays in the political sociology of education on topics hotly debated within the education...

This book steers a middle path between those who argue that the theories of Marx and Engels have been rendered obsolete by historical events and th...

Over a decade ago, Jorge Castañeda wrote the classic Utopia Unarmed, which offered a penetrating and comprehensive account of the Latin American le...

While there has been much focus in recent times on the rise of right-wing populism in Europe, there has been surprisingly little material on the ph...

This book is a thematic history of the communist movement in Kerala, the first major region (in terms of population) in the world to democratically...

This book presents a critical and empirically informed examination of Islamophobia and related issues of racism and nationalism in Germany today, w...

This book provides a comparative analysis and a systemic categorization of the Populist Radical Left Parties (PRLPs) in Western Europe. Institution...