Sentences with phrase «social democratic»

It needs to become more like a typical European social democratic party, which recognises that nothing can be achieved without forging alliances with others.

However, I do think part of the problem is the displacement of social democratic energy.

But now we can see that it is only social democratic governments that are really mounting a fight against the recession.

Yes, the issues of our time demand social democratic values - but if this is not a crisis of our politics then it does require profound reflection.

But I am very strongly in agreement with your final paragraph, and the opportunity to have a popular social democratic programme.

With the sudden collapse of the main ideas of the political right, the need for debate and discussion over social democratic and socialist ideas has become much more urgent.

Good stuff, and how nice it always is to see social democratic rhetoric from our Labour lot, why have we waited so long?

The challenges facing Labour are similar to those facing social democratic parties elsewhere.

For social democratic parties the challenge is to reinvent their democratic practices and party forms, while remaining electorally competitive — a challenge that is a lot easier to state than to meet.

From the late - 1980s onwards, the party adopted free market policies, [146] leading many observers to describe the Labour Party as social democratic or the Third Way, rather than democratic socialist.

The center - left Social Democratic Party came off particularly badly in the scandal, with senior officials exposed as feasting at the trough.

Although he plainly lacks the manic energy of a Thatcher or Blair, he nevertheless personifies the insurgency within the Liberal Democrats which has ruthlessly and decisively supplanted the party's social democratic tradition with the economic neo-liberalism of the Orange Bookers.

So, rather than switching from central planning to free - market capitalism, I'm now, in Andre Metin's description of Australia in early C20, a believer in «socialism without doctrines», starting from the historical premise that Keynesian social democracy has delivered better outcomes than either free - market dogmatism or central planning, and looking for ways to develop a new social democratic vision relevant to our current circumstances.

Similarly, an attempt by John Swinney, the dry - as - dust education secretary, to rebut recent internal criticism that the Scottish government lacks a radical edge amounted to little more than claiming the SNP sat «firmly astride Scotland's social democratic centre», while elsewhere he said the currency proposition won't «necessarily» have to be any different from that offered up in 2014, a so - called «currency union».

Except for last minute changes, former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore has concluded plans to formally join Social Democratic Party (SDP) to contest forthcoming governorship election in the state.

President Mahama pledged to continue programmes and policies and introduce new initiatives that are «consistent with key social democratic principles of equity» when given another opportunity to lead the nation.

«As a government founded on Social Democratic principles we believe that government has business doing business and, therefore, has a major role to play in job creation.

In a way, these parties are the new social democratic voices of their countries, ready to replace the more traditional but ideologically compromised left - wing forebears.

Among these were the Independent Labour Party, the intellectual and largely middle - class Fabian Society, the Marxist Social Democratic Federation [12] and the Scottish Labour Party.

Sunday March 4 had started positively for Europe with Social Democratic Party (SPD) members in Germany voting to approve the party joining a so - called grand coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc, ending political instability there, just as it started in Italy.

Drawing on her latestbook, she writes that the European context of crisis and austerity created a situation that Labour — together with other European social democratic parties — failed to steer through successfully.

And those who fail to see the difference between the Keynesian social democratic agenda of the two Eds and the neo-liberalism of David Miliband's undelivered «victory» speech need to remove their ultra-left blinkers.

Ever since World War I, when the the likes of the UK Labour Party, the Australian Labor Party and the German Social Democratic Party split over the slaughter in the trenches, left - of - centre parties have been divided between a principled pacifist wing and what has normally been a majority prepared to back military force when considered necessary.

Ed Miliband can rely on broad support amongst the Labour movement for more social democratic policies and away from the electorally destructive policies of the past decade.

If the opposition Social Democratic Party wins in this September's elections, party leader Sigmar...

He made the observation as he angrily resigned membership of the party that he helped formed and nurtured, with the patriotic fervor to make it a genuine party of the people and of social democratic reforms.

The New Labour model of political economy was shaken to its core, having pledged allegiance both to Thatcherite deregulated markets and an overly complacent social democratic model of «tax and spend».

Those who attended the meeting with the governor's team, included Senator Adegbenga Kaka, Senator Gbenga Obadara, a former Social Democratic Party governorship candidate in the state, Senator Akin Odunsi, Adekunle Adeyemi, Abiodun Adudu - Balogun and Bukola Braimoh.

So the government is — essentially, the Social Democrats have imposed the dictatorship in Iceland that they're trying to impose in Greece under the socialist government there and in other social democratic governments throughout Europe.

But then, thrown into the lively mix, I can reveal, is the plan by a former founder member of the old breakaway Social Democratic Party, Professor Stephen Haseler, to stand an anti coalition Liberal Democrat candidate.

A long history of egalitarian Social Democratic rule and a dose of «Jante Law», a term coined by Danish author Aksel Sandemose in 1933 to signify group behaviour that treats individual success and achievement as unworthy and inappropriate, have left a legacy.

After leaving the union in 1994, he went into politics and became a member of the defunct Social Democratic Party.

And in the midst of the euro crisis and the eurozone's commitments to binding austerity, what are the chances that a Hollande victory could represent a real change of direction in France and catalyse a real debate about social democratic alternatives in Europe?

In the end it comes down to a difference between a liberal perspective which wants to empower without being too judgmental about specific goods, and a more traditional social democratic approach which thinks in terms of access to specific «merit goods».

But they would have been survivable if we saw more of the perceptive, social democratic populism which he is perfectly capable of delivering.

He said the NDC since its inception in 1992 have been social democrats and that it is simply untenable to claim that they [NDC] are stealing social democratic ideas from a capitalist entity [NPP].

You might have thought that discussion should have begun a decade ago, when the supposedly social democratic SNP first entered government (albeit with fewer fiscal powers than it has now), but that was pre-financial crash and pre-Jeremy Corbyn.

Liberal Democrat insiders point to the fact that Kennedy and his supporters emerged from the SDP, the old Social Democratic breakaway party, but that in seeking to «break the mould» of British politics and merging with the Liberal to become the Liberal Democrats in the 1980s, never in their wildest dreams expected to end up supporting a minority Conservative Government intent on the most swingeing cuts in public spending since the Second World War.

Many Social Democratic and Labour parties have jumped on the bandwagon of finance capital, not recognizing the need to rescue industrial capitalism from dependence on neofeudal finance capital before the older conflict between labor and industrial capital over wage levels and working conditions can be resumed.

He said: «We shall remain committed to implementing social democratic policies and programmes arising from this meeting in our continuous pursuit of building a strong resilient and sustainable economy that generate wealth and prosperity.

I think your summary of the differences between the liberal and social democratic positions is a fair one, but I do think that post 18 education and training is a fine example of a «merit good», and that there is considerable benefit to both individuals and society from earmarking this funding for education and study.

Democratic Republicanism is more critical of capitalism than most social democratic critiques, because it stresses the importance of freedom for citizen participation as vital to creating autonomy and liberty, and the conflict between labour markets and citizenship.

It was a mild social democratic approach from Right Wing Scottish Labour and people can get a pretence perhaps a bit more mild social democracy from the fake SNP so why vote Labour.