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Hard Choices: The Future of Social Democracy - Christopher Pierson: Hard Choices: Social Democracy in the Twenty-first Century, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2002, 176 pp., hardback £50.00, ISBN 0745619843, paperback £14.99, ISBN 0745619851.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , 2003 , pp. 395 - 401
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1 Gray, J., After Social Democracy: Politics, Capitalism and the Common Life, London, Demos, 1996, p. 24 Google Scholar.

2 Ibid., pp. 12–13. Gray may be guilty of rhetorical exaggeration here, but the facts are undoubtedly disturbing from a social democratic point of view. In Britain, for example, the TUC lost over five million members after 1979. See Western, B., ‘A Comparative Study of Working-Class Disorganization: Union Decline in Eighteen Advanced Capitalist Countries’, American Sociological Review, 60 (04 1995), pp. 179–201 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Giddens, A, Beyond Left and Right: The Future of Radical Politics, Cambridge, Polity, 1994, p. 15 Google Scholar.

4 Bernstein, E., The Preconditions for Socialism, ed. Tudor, H., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 161 CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Cited on p. 28 of Hard Choices.

5 Cited in Callaghan, J. and Tunney, S., ‘Prospects for Social Democracy: a Critical Review of the Arguments and Evidence’, Contemporary Politics, 6 (03 2000), p. 58 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.