European social democracy during the global economic crisis

Introduction
David Bailey, Jean-Michel De Waele, Fabien Escalona and Mathieu Vieira
PART I: The political economy of European social democracy under global economic crisis
1. It does not happen here either: why social democrats fail in the context of the great financial crisis – Fabien Escalona and Mathieu Vieira
2. Social democracy and social movements from crisis to crisis – George Ross
3. Why the financial crisis has not generated a social democratic alternative in Europe? – Magnus Ryner
4. Social democracy in the light of capitalist crises: the case of the British Labour – John Callaghan
PART II: National responses to crisis
5. Coping with TINA: the Labour Party and the new crisis of capitalism – Philippe Marlière
6. Losing social democracy. Reflections on the erosion of a paradigmatic case of social democracy – Jenny Andersson
7. German social democracy: a popular project and an unpopular party – Ingo Schmidt
8. The French PS (2008-13). Not revolutionaries, not luminaries, just ‘normal’ guys amidst the tempest – Christophe Bouillaud
9. Back to the drawing board. The PSOE after the 2011 general election – Paul Kennedy
10. Trimph and collapse: the PASOK in the wake of the crisis in Greece (2009–13) – Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos
PART III: Towards a social democratic European Union?
11. Limits of consensus? The Party of European Socialists and the financial crisis – Michael Holmes and Simon Lightfoot
12. Palliating terminal social democratic decline at the EU-level? – David Bailey
13. Reforming Europe, renewing social democracy? The PES, the debt crisis and the Europarties – Gerassimos Moschonas
Postface: death by a thousand cuts? – Ashley Lavelle
Index