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Rethinking Social Democracy
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Notes on Contributors Editorial Communism, Social Democracy and the Democracy Gap Stefan Berger Reasons for 'Progressive' Disunity Labour and Liberal Politics in Britain, 1918-45 Andrew Thorpe Socialist Intellectual as Social Engineer Jan Tinbergen's Ideas on Economic Policy and the Optimal Economic Order (1930-60) Aad Blok History Without Manifestoes Donald Sassoon interview Willie Thompson Forum New Labour in Perspective New Labour, Science and Democracy Mark Bevir Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party - Midwife of the New Labour Project Robert Taylor

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Stefan Berger is a member of the Socialist History editorial board and has written extensively on European social democracy and comparative labour history. He is professor of modern and contemporary history at the University of Glamorgan. Mark Bevir is associate professor of political science at UC Berkeley. He is the author of The Logic of the History of Ideas (1999), co-author of Interpreting British Governance (2003), and coeditor of Critiques of Capital: Transatlantic Exchanges 1800 to the Present Day (2003). Aad Blok is managing editor and book review editor of the International Review of Social History at the Research and Publications Department of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. He has co-edited volumes on social democracy and the agrarian issue 1870-1914, and on the role of labour in information revolutions. Donald Sassoon is professor of comparative European history at Queen Mary, University of London. His much-acclaimed One Hundred Years of Socialism: the West European left in the twentieth century was published in 1996. He is an editorial adviser to Socialist History. Andrew Thorpe is professor of history at the University of Exeter. His recent publications include The British Communist Party and Moscow (2000) and A History of the British Labour Party (second edition, 2001). Robert Taylor is policy adviser to the European Trade Union Confederation in Brussels. Former labour editor of the Observer and then the Financial Times, he is writing a history of the parliamentary Labour Party since 1906. Willie Thompson is a former editor of Socialist History and a member of its editorial board.

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Reviews Jean-Francois-Fayet, Karl Radek (1885-1939): Biographie politique (Brian Pearce) Charles Ashleigh, The Rambling Kid (David Howell) Francis Wheen, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World (Willie Thompson) Beverley J. Silver, Forces of Labor. Workers' Movements and Globalization since 1870 (Steve Ludlam) Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner (eds), Republicanism. A Shared European Heritage (Steven Fielding) Steven Fielding, The Labour Governments 1964-1970 , vol. 1: Labour and Cultural Change (Julia Speht) John Keane, Global Civil Society? (Alan Apperley) Lawrence Black, The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 1951-64. Old Labour, New Britain? (Author?) Catherine Epstein The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century (Stephen Hopkins) Matthew Worley (ed.), In Search of Revolution: International Communist Parties in the Third Period (Jean-Francois Fayet)

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