Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe
Part 1 The formative years of Scandinavian social democracy: party vs Parliament, contrasting configurations of electoral and ministerial socialism in Scandinavia, Jostein Ryssevik; "A Nation of Workers and Peasants" ideology and compromise in the interwar years, Lauri Karvonen; social classes and political institutions - the roots of Swedish corporatism, Bo Rothstein; participation in local government - a course of social democratic deradicalization in Scandinavia?, Jan Sundberg. Part 2 Current predicaments: the idea of equality and security in Nordic social democracy, Per Selle; from Cadres to citizens to clients - toward a theory of the electoral coalitions of social democracy, Ulf Lindstrom; the electoral decline of social democracy - is there a geographical factor?, Ingemar Worlund. Part 3 Beyond Scandinavia: democratic socialism in Spain, Portugal, and Greece, Einar Berntzen; Italian socialism - a century of trial and error, Ann-Cathrine Jungar; East European Social Democracy - reborn to be rejected, Ulf Lindstrom.