The future of social democracy

European social democracy is in desperate need of a period of ideological renewal. In order to reconnect with voters and regain widespread support it will have to reconcile its values with new and emerging socio-economic trends. To this end, Policy Network, the international progressive thinktank, and the Wiardi Beckman Stichting, the Dutch social democratic thinktank, have jointly initiated a new process of reflection and strategic thinking.

• Primary Source

Policy Network: Challenging the politics of evasion: the only way to renew European social democracy, December 2009 http://www.policy-network.net/uploadedFiles/Publications/Publications/The%20politics%20of%20evasion(3).pdf

Policy Network: The Amsterdam process, December 2009 http://www.policy-network.net/uploadedFiles/Publications/Publications/The%20Amsterdam%20Process%20(6).pdf

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