left governance

Radical Left Parties in EuropeWhat are the current challenges for the parties of the non-social democrat Left in Europe? Under which conditions can they be successful, and on the basis of which policy? In the most recent publication of the RLS Brussels Office a range of country and comparative reports will focus on the social structure, electorate, self-understanding and organization structure of 25 left parties in Europe. Further issues will include the role of the parties within the political system of their respective countries, their programmatic-strategic ...
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Left Parties in EuropeComplete documentation of the country reports which were partly published in the book "Von Revolution bis Koalition: Linke Parteien in Europa" (see link below).Content:Nordeuropa:Inger V. Johansen - Die Linke und die radikale Linke in DänemarkEvgeni Golikov, Toivo Palm - Linke Perspektiven im rechten EstlandAnna Kontula, Tomi Kuhanen - Der Wiederaufbau des Linken Bündnisses. Hoffen auf einen NeuanfangAuður Lilja Erlingsdóttir - Die Linke in IslandDag Seierstad - Die Linke in Norwegen: Politik in der Mitte-Links-RegierungBarbara Steiner - ...
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Political Parties and Party Alliances between Norway and TurkeyFrom the introduction:After thirty years the victorious march of neo-liberalism has ground to a halt at the beginning of the 21st century, having plunged the world into financial and economic crisis. For the first time a financial and economic crisis has coincided with social, environmental and climatic crises. The scale of the social deformations causing all this, the increases in social divisions, hunger and poverty, are already visible in all European countries. But no one knows yet how this crisis will end, ...
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The publication contains nineteen country reports submitted by the participants of the second Latin America and Europe conference on the Left in Government, 27-29 June 2010 in Brussels. The European country reports are documented in English, the Latin American country reports in Spanish. Cornelia Hildebrandt and Valter Pomar have analyzed these country reports. Their analysis is published in the book Upsurge in Latin America – Europe on the Defensive? (English, Spanish).Content:Europe:Ruurik Holm and Laura ...
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Latin America and Europe comparedFrom the introduction: Since the late nineties, left forces have taken over government responsibility in a growing number of countries in Latin America; in Europe too, the left has participated in governing coalitions. An evaluation of whether government participation has been successful or not should be based on whether the left has been able to achieve structural changes effective beyond the short term of government participation, and whether it has been able to enlarge its social base. On the basis of these criteria, the ...
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