* Preface * Acknowledgments * Reexamining Interwar Social Democracy * Evaluating the Role of Ideas * Sweden's Political Development and the Programmatic Beliefs of the SAP * Germany's Political Development and the Programmatic Beliefs of the SPD * Sweden's Path to Democracy * Germany's Path to Democracy * The Origins of Social Democratic Hegemony * The Collapse of German Democracy * Understanding Interwar Social Democracy * Notes * Index
Sheri Berman is Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University.
[Berman's] work is convincing and well written, and her discussion
of the role of ideas is spirited and welcome. Chapter 2 should be
required reading for all political scientists who are unwilling to
look beyond numbers to see the force of ideas.
*Foreign Affairs*
[The Social Democratic Movement] is a comparative analysis of the
developments of two of the most important social democratic parties
in Europe, the SPD of Germany and the SAP of Sweden. It sets out to
explain how the German Social Democrats, at the largest interwar
party, could not effectively prevent the collapse of Weimar
Germany, whereas at the same time the Swedish Social Democrats were
establishing political hegemony in their own country...The book
outlines the contrasts between the Swedish and German developments
through well-contextualized country-specific chapters, first on
long-term political development, then on national transitions to
(full) democracy, then on responses to the depression. The book is
thoroughly researched and clearly written, with each chapter
beginning with an insightful and very fitting quotation.
*Recensions [Italy]*
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