Social Democracy
AQA A2 Ideolgies 3B
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- Created on: 29-05-16 14:40
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- Social Democracy
- 19th- Early 20th Century
- Used by both Revolutionary and Evolutionary Socislists
- Late C20 it became known as a more moderate type of Socialism
- Committed to democratic methods and a pluralist political system
- Centre of Political spectrum
- New Labour version of Social democracy is the 'Third Way'
- Response to a post Thatcher Consensus that had gripped Britain since the 1980s
- Accepts free market with control over monopoly powers
- Promotes competition in public service i.e. Education
- Accepts decline of Public subsidized housing
- Accepts privatization, also introduce partnerships between public and private sectors
- No attempt to control economy, instead introducing measures of stability
- Not restoring union powers but strengthen workers rights
- Accepts inequality but has a minimum wage and minimum standard of living
- Taxation on income to be low and business tax to be reduced
- Giddens: Policies after 1992
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