In Search of New Social Democracy

Olle Törnquist is Professor of Politics and Development, University of Oslo. He has written widely on radical politics, development and democratisation. His main empirical focus since the 1970s has been Indonesia, India and the Philippines, with Scandinavia and South Africa and Brazil as reference cases.

• PrefacePart I: IntroductionCh 1: The Mystery – and How to Solve ItCh 2: Social DemocracyCh 3: Cases and Contextual PuzzlesCh 4: Progress and Demise of the World’s Largest Popular Reform Movement in IndonesiaCh 5: The Rise and Stagnation of Kerala’s Emancipatory LeftCh 6: The ‘People Power’ Mystery in the PhilippinesCh 7: Effects in the North: From Internationalism to ‘Social Democracy in one Country’– the Case of SwedenPart III: Challenges of Third Generation Social DemocracyCh 8: Philippine Experiments for a Democratic LeftCh 9: Rise and Demotion of the Indonesian Democracy Movement Ch 10 Dilemmas of Deepening Democracy after SuhartoCh 11: Kerala Renewal of Social DemocracyCh 12: Counter Movements in India?Ch 13: Inconclusive Left-of-Centre Politics in the PhilippinesCh 14: Whither Reformist Populism? The Indonesian ExperienceCh 15: Implications and Options in the North: the Swedish StalematePart IV: Reinventing Social DemocracyCh 16: Lessons for New Social DemocracyCh 17: Towards a Roadmap

Törnquist draws on insights accrued over a lifetime of research to explain why reformist social movements have not made more of a difference in India, Indonesia and the Philippines. Part personal memoir, part intellectual musing, this very accessible book delves into an eclectic selection of ‘moments’ across time in each of these settings, searching for hints that a social democratic vision for a new world order could yet prevail.