European Socialists and the State in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Mathieu Fulla is Faculty Member at the Centre for History at Sciences Po, France. His research focuses on the history of labour movements in Western Europe and the political and economic history of Europe from 1945 to the present. Marc Lazar is Professor of Political History and Sociology and Director of the Centre for History at Sciences Po, France. His research interests include the Left in Western Europe, the Political history of France and Italy after WW II, and populism and populists in Europe.

• Chapter 1: Introduction. European Socialists and the State: A comparative and transnational approach (Mathieu Fulla and Marc Lazar).- Part I: Acculturating to the state to democratise it.- Chapter 2: Introduction (Mathieu Fulla).- Chapter 3: Between Challenging the Authoritarian State and Democratizing It: German Social Democracy, 1914-1945 (Stefan Berger).- Chapter 4: French Socialists and the State, 1905-2017 (Alain Bergounioux).- Chapter 5: The Planist Temptation: Belgian Social Democracy and the State during the Great Depression, c. 1929 - c. 1936 (Tommaso Milani).- Chapter 6: Paradoxes of Hegemony: Scandinavian Social Democracy and the State (Yohann Aucante).- Part II: Socialists and civil servants.- Chapter 7: Introduction (Mathieu Fulla).- Chapter 8: The British Labour Party and the Civil Service in the Twentieth Century (Kevin Theakston).- Chapter 9: Social Democracy, Labour Unions and Civil Service in West Germany since the Second World War (Bernd Faulenbach).- Chapter 10: The French Socialist Party, Civil Servants and the State (Laure Machu and Matthieu Tracol).- Chapter 11: Socialism, the State and Civil Service in Spain : Two Experiences in Perspective (Second Republic and Democratic Transition) (Juan Francisco Fuentes).- Chapter 12: The Swedish SAP: Civil Servants, Social Engineers and Welfare Bureaucrat (Kjell Östberg).- Chapter 13: The Divorce between Public-Sector Employees and West European Socialist Parties (Luc Rouban).- Part III: Socialists and Changes in Capitalism and States.- Chapter 14: Introduction (Marc Lazar).- Chapter 15: French Socialists, Capitalism and the State: A Unique Approach within West European Social Democracy? (Mathieu Fulla).- Chapter 16: From Marxism to “Agenda 2010”: German Social Democratic Notions of the State from Its Founding until Today (Sebastian Voigt).- Chapter 17: “K. u. k. Social Democracy” Reloaded: Austria's SPÖ and the State after 1945 (Maria Mesner).- Chapter 18: The Swedish Social Democrats, ReformSocialism and the state after the Golden Era (Jenny Andersson and Kjell Östberg).- Chapter 19: What’s Left of Blairism? The Labour Party’s changing conception of the state since the 1980s (Emmanuelle Avril).- Chapter 20: The Italian Socialist Party from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s: Socialists and a Weak State (Marc Lazar with the collaboration of Massimo Asta).- Chapter 21: Superficial Social Democracy: PASOK, the State and the Shipwreck of the Greek Economy (Gerassimos Moschonas).-