0 the belief that society should change from capitalism to socialism in a gradual, peaceful way; a system of government based on this belief:
1 a political system that is based on socialism and democracy:
There are expectations that Germany will move from its post-war social democracy towards aggressive Anglo-American style capitalism.
2 a country with a government that is based on social democracy:
Paradoxically, then, social democracy, when combined with high levels of corporatism, ends up using a regressive form of taxation more than we would expect.
Insufficient generosity and uninformed views amongst the public were hindering social democracy as much as inadequate levels of economic growth or mistaken policies.
We provide some descriptive statistics for our measure of corporatism, as well as for that of social democracy, below.
On balance, economic globalization seems to have had a corrosive impact on the conditions of social democracy.
Corporatism appears to limit the set of policy tools available for social democracy to promote redistribution.
To capture the effects of social democracy more clearly, the cabinet partisanship variable was reversed (so that higher values mean more leftist governments).
The second column shows that unemployment growth and its interaction with social democracy are significant.
There are two reasons why social democracy cannot continue to increase the burden on labour to finance a generous welfare state.
