Patrick Diamond is co-chair and research director at Policy Network. He is a lecturer in Public Policy at Queen Mary, University of London, Gwilym Gibbon fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and a visiting fellow at the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford. Until May 2010 he was head of policy planning in 10 Downing Street and senior policy adviser to the prime minister.

• Preface / Introduction / Which Voters is the Left Losing? / What Explains the Poor Performance of Centre-Left Parties? / Social Democracy: A Crisis of Ideas? / How Does the Centre eft Respond? Social Justice in the New Hard Times / Conclusion: The Crisis and Retreat of European Social Democracy / Bibliography

Patrick Diamond is co-chair and research director at Policy Network. He is a lecturer in Public Policy at Queen Mary, University of London, Gwilym Gibbon fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and a visiting fellow at the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford. Until May 2010 he was head of policy planning in 10 Downing Street and senior policy adviser to the prime minister.

• Preface / Introduction / Which Voters is the Left Losing? / What Explains the Poor Performance of Centre-Left Parties? / Social Democracy: A Crisis of Ideas? / How Does the Centre eft Respond? Social Justice in the New Hard Times / Conclusion: The Crisis and Retreat of European Social Democracy / Bibliography