Below you will find a reading list and some online hints on the origins, politics and economics of the “social welfare state” and “social democracy“:
- Britannica: “welfare state“
- Britannica: “social democracy“
- Wikipedia: “third way or modernized social democracy“
- Britannica: “market failure“
- Britannica: “regulatory state“
- Bryan Fanning (2021): Three Roads to the Welfare State: Liberalism, Social Democracy and Christian Democracy
- Andrew Jackson (2024): “Social democracy was not only about the welfare state and public services and expanding social rights, but also about regulated capitalism, economic democracy, or even transcendence of capitalism as an economic system […] Social democrats defended past social gains for the most part, but have largely failed to develop a fully convincing contemporary alternative to the social and economic policies of the right.“
- FES-Portal zur Geschichte der Sozialdemokratie
- Thomas Meyer and Lewis Hinchman (2007): “The Theory of Social Democracy“
- Tobias Gombert et al. (2012): Foundations of Social Democracy (FES) / Türkçesi
- Simon Vaut et al. (2009): Economics and Social Democracy (FES) / Türkçesi
- Eunice Goes (2024): “Social democracy: its history and its future“
- Servaas Storm (2020): “The Economics and Politics of Social Democracy: A Reconsideration”
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1755): “Discourse on Political Economy“
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762): “The Social Contract“
- John Locke (1823): Two Treatises of Government
- Karl Kautsky (1892): Das Erfurter Programm (V. Der Klassenkampf) [The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program)]
- Karl Kautsky (1902): Die soziale Revolution [The Social Revolution]
- Karl Kautsky (1909). Der Weg zur Macht [The Road to Power]
- Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932) & Sozialdemokratie
- Eduard Bernstein (1899): „Die Voraussetzungen des Sozialismus und die Aufgaben der Sozialdemokratie“ (Engl.: “Evolutionary Socialism“)
- Hendrick Küpper (2024): „Was die SPD heute von Eduard Bernstein lernen könnte“
- “Ich glaube, das Wiesel-Wort par excellence ist das Wort sozial. Was es eigentlich heißt, weiß niemand. Wahr ist nur, daß eine soziale Marktwirtschaft keine Marktwirtschaft, ein sozialer Rechtsstaat kein Rechtsstaat, ein soziales Gewissen kein Gewissen, soziale Gerechtigkeit keine Gerechtigkeit – und ich fürchte auch, soziale Demokratie keine Demokratie ist.” – Friedrich August von Hayek: Wissenschaft und Sozialismus. In: Gesammelte Schriften in deutscher Sprache. Abt. A, Aufsätze; Band 7. Mohr Siebeck, 2004, S. 61 f.
- Karl Polanyi (1944): The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
- Murray N. Rothbard (1970): Power and Market: Government and the Economy
- László Andor (2024): “Karl Polanyi against the ‘free market’ dystopia“
- László Andor (2024): “By the time of the war, Polanyi considered himself a liberal socialist, in the footsteps of German thinkers such as Eduard Bernstein and Franz Oppenheimer.“
- Daniel Luban (2017): “The Elusive Karl Polanyi“
- Daniel Luban (2017): “Polanyi got his start as a journalist and political impresario rather than as a scholar. In 1914, he helped his mentor Oscar Jaszi found the Radical Bourgeois (or Civic Radical) Party, aligned with the reformist socialism of Eduard Bernstein in Germany.“
- Franz Oppenheimer (1912): “Die soziale Frage und der Sozialismus : Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der marxistischen Theorie“
- John Rawls (1971): A Theory of Justice
- John Rawls (1993): Political Liberalism
- John Rawls (1999): “Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical“
- Adam Przeworski (1985): Capitalism and Social Democracy
- Robert Skidelsky (1989): The Social Market Economy
- Robert Skidelsky (2020): “Keynes: The Second Coming?“
- Jürgen Habermas (1998): “Die postnationale Konstellation und die Zukunft der Demokratie”
- Anthony Giddens (1998): The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy
- Anthony Giddens (2013): The Third Way and its Critics
- Thomas Meyer (1998): “The Third way – some crossroads“
- Karl Ove Moene (2003): Social democracy as a development strategy
- Wolfgang Merkel and Alexander Petring (2007): “Social democracy in power: Explaining the capacity to reform“
- Robert Skidelsky (2010): “Keynes and Social Democracy Today” (Comments by Mark Thoma: “Keynes and Social Democracy“)
- Anke Hassel and Christoph Pohlmann (eds.) (2010): “Market and State in European Social Democracy Progressive Perspectives on Developing a Social and Sustainable Market Model“
- Martin O’Neill (2021): “Justice, Power, and Participatory Socialism: on Piketty’s Capital and Ideology“
- Thomas Piketty (2014 [2013]): Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- Thomas Piketty (2020): Capital and Ideology
- Aykut Kibritçioğlu (2014): “Piketty (2013.09) Öncesi ve Piketty (2014.03) Sonrasında ‘İktisat (Politikası) Tartışmaları’: Seçilmiş Okumalar“
- László Andor (2020): “The EU from crisis to crisis: Post-Polanyian questions for social democracy“
- Wolfgang Streeck:
- 2013: Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism (Gekaufte Zeit: Die vertagte Krise des demokratischen Kapitalismus)
- 2016: How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System
- 2021: Between Globalism and Democracy: Political Economics in Late Neoliberalism
- 2022: “Wolfgang Streeck: Life is easier if you’re not telling others how to behave”
- Perry Anderson (2021): “Wolfgang Streeck is the Karl Polanyi of our time.“
- Francis Sejersted (2011): The Age of Social Democracy: Norway and Sweden in the Twentieth Century
- Rob Manwaring and Josh Holloway (2021): “A New Wave of Social Democracy? Policy Change across the Social Democratic Party Family, 1970s–2010s“
- Maercel Boyer (2023): Social Democracy, Capitalism, and Competition: A Manifesto
- Victor L. Shammas (2024): “The Global Hinterland of Social Democracy: On the Limitations of Norwegian Welfare Capitalism“
Selected additional books and links on democracy, social democracy, welfare state, social policies, and social justice are:
- Amazon.com: “social democracy“
- Joseph A. Schumpeter (1942): Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
- Jürgen Habermas (1996): Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
- Amartya Sen (1999): Development as Freedom
- David Harvey (2005): A Brief History of Neoliberalism
- Nancy Fraser (2013): Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis
- Uwe Schneidewind (2018): Die Große Transformation: Eine Einführung in die Kunst gesellschaftlichen Wandels
- Social Renewal and Reforms: “Social Renewal“, “Social Market Economy“, “Scandinavian Welfare State Model“, “Austrian Social Partnership System” and “Society 5.0“.