European Socialists and the State in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Chapter 1 European Socialists and the State: A Comparative and Transnational Approach

Chapter 2 Using the State to Democratise it. Introduction to Part I

Chapter 3 Between Challenging the Authoritarian State and Democratising It: German Social Democracy, 1914–1945

Chapter 4 French Socialists and the State, 1905–2017

Chapter 5 The Planist Temptation: Belgian Social Democracy and the State During the Great Depression, c. 1929–c. 1936

Chapter 6 Paradoxes of Hegemony: Scandinavian Social Democracy and the State

Chapter 7 Socialists and Civil Servants. Introduction to Part II

Chapter 8 The British Labour Party and the Civil Service in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 9 Social Democracy, Labour Unions and Civil Service in West Germany since the Second World War

Chapter 10 The French Socialist Party, Civil Servants and the State. A Comparative Approach to Social Reforms Between the Popular Front Period (1936–1938) and the Early Years of the Mitterrand Presidency (1981–1983)

Chapter 11 Socialism, the State and Civil Service in Spain: Two Experiences in Perspective (Second Republic and Democratic Transition)

Chapter 12 The Swedish Social Democracy: Civil Servants, Social Engineers and Welfare Bureaucrats

Chapter 13 The Divorce between Public-Sector Employees and West European Socialist Parties

Chapter 14 Socialists and Changes in Capitalism and States: Introduction to Part III

Chapter 15 French Socialists, Capitalism and the State: A Unique Approach within West European Social Democracy?

Chapter 16 From Marxism to “Agenda 2010”: German Social Democratic Notions of the State from Its Founding until Today

Chapter 17 “K. u. k. Social Democracy” Reloaded: Austria’s SPÖ and the State After 1945

Chapter 18 The Swedish Social Democrats, Reform Socialism and the state after the Golden Era

Chapter 19 What’s Left of Blairism? The Labour Party’s Changing Conception of the State since the 1980s

Chapter 20 The Italian Socialist Party from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s: Socialists and a Weak State