Grounded
in social democratic values and ideas, the Institute seeks to deepen our democracy, encourage strong action to counter growing economic and social inequality, and fuel a transition to a more innovative and sustainable economy.
Neither of the stock responses that modernising social democracy has lost us our traditional base, or (sometimes) alternatively that we have not modernised enough, seem to me to recognise the scale or complexity of the challenge of building an effective politics of support for
putting social democratic values into practice.
Hattersley tells us that Labour must go back to its roots, talking explicitly
about social democratic values and the morality and efficacy of the central state.
Im worried mandelson lacks
the social democratic values that we need in our government to create a fair society?
The poor differentiation between Plaid and Labour was not accidental, it is because when Labour speaks for Wales, and embraces
the social democratic values that dominate Welsh political life, then Plaid becomes eclipsed.
BUT he also revealed that he did not feel he had the answers to Labour's «big questions» about his party's
social democratic values in an era when capital and business was global and moved across national borders.