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"In What's Left of the Left, distinguished scholars of European and U.S. politics consider how center-left political parties have fared since the 1970s. They explore the left's responses to the end of the postwar economic boom, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the erosion of traditional party politics, the expansion of market globalization, and the shift to a knowledge-based economy. Their comparative studies of center-left politics in Scandinavia, France, Germany, southern Europe, post-Cold War Central and Eastern Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States emphasize differences in the goals of left political parties and in the political, economic, and demographic contexts in which they operate. The contributors identify and investigate the more successful center-left initiatives, scrutinizing how some conditions facilitated them, while others blocked their emergence or limited their efficacy. In the contemporary era of slow growth, tight budgets, and rapid technological change, the center-left faces pressing policy concerns, including immigration, the growing population of the working poor, and the fate of the European Union. This collection suggests that such matters present the left with daunting but by no means insurmountable challenges"--Publisher's website.

Center parties --- Political parties.

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Au football, mettre la balle au centre permet de relancer l’action. En politique, c’est l’inverse : nous n’aimons pas centrer. En revanche, nous suivons sans broncher le une-deux entre la droite et la gauche, le débordement populiste par les ailes, les tirs directs du referendum et les coups de boule du coup d’État. Pourtant, il faut l’admettre : depuis 1789, on a joué au centre plus souvent qu’on croit et qu’on nous l’enseigne. De Mirabeau à Macron en passant par Ferry, Queuille, Barre ou Bayrou, cet essai visite le parent pauvre des discours et des études sur notre vie politique : la centralité, si souvent raillée par les prétendus esprits forts, mais toujours vivace dans une France contemporaine qu’on croit, à tort, si éternellement révolutionnaire et divisée qu’elle ne peut pas donner à la position médiane une légitimité populaire et une onction de souveraineté. Pendant plus de deux siècles, pourtant, des hommes ont joué à contre-pied de « la » droite comme de « la » gauche, du conservatisme étroit, du progressisme délirant ou de l’appel au peuple vengeur. Loin d’être des mollassons ou des vaincus d’avance, ils ont été des volontaires du bien commun et de l’intérêt général qui ont mouillé le maillot pour gouverner au mieux plutôt que d’imposer des solutions partisanes et bellicistes. Ils ont montré qu’en politique, le droit et la raison, l’équité et la solidarité ne sont pas toujours à la merci des idéologies casquées, du bloc contre bloc, des fronts vite disloqués, des majorités impotentes et des alternances sans projet. Voici leur histoire.

Statesmen --- Center parties --- France

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Why has Europe's centre-left failed to respond to the crisis of neoliberalism in Europe? Rather than opening up a moment in political time for the centre-left to puncture the dominance of neoliberalism, the multitude of crises in Europe since 2008 have consolidated its difficulties and contributed to the rise of radical and populist alternatives. Divided They Fell examines the failures of mainstream politics, and in particular the inability of the centre-left to respond to the global financial crisis more effectively. By exploring the cases of the UK Labour Party and France's Parti Socialiste, the book investigates the role of, and interplay between, institutional intra-party dynamics, the parties' ideational landscapes and the wider political economy in shaping their responses to the crisis. Important reputational, ideational and strategic path dependencies in both parties, it is shown, constrained the flow of fresh ideas and entrenched their internal organizational divisions, leaving them unable to offer an effective post-neoliberal economic alternative. Ultimately, this fractured the parties and sparked a crisis of centre-left identity that opened the door to emergent alternative parties and movements in both cases. Divided They Fell helps to diagnose what has gone wrong for the centre-left in Europe and forces us to consider whether such parties are, in the context of new and emerging crises, still fit for purpose. -- Provided by publisher.

Center parties --- Neoliberalism

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