Centre-left parties across the West ended the twentieth century arguing for policies their founders would not have recognised, and Stephanie L. Mudge explains how that came about.
The study compares socialist and social democratic parties in the United States, Britain, Germany and Sweden across roughly a century, tracking the shift from party intellectuals rooted in labour movements to professional economists and strategists. Mudge argues that who advises a party shapes what it can imagine, and she follows the changing profile of those advisers through party documents, biographies and archival material. The result is a history of political change that looks past elections to the people writing the programmes.
Scope of the study:
• A comparative history covering the United States, Britain, Germany and Sweden
• The changing role of economists and strategists inside parties
• Archival and biographical research rather than polling data
• An explanation of the move from socialist programmes to market policy
Published by Harvard University Press for students, academics and readers of political history, available at Boipoka.
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