TY - BOOK ID - 32434 TI - What’s Left of the Left? AU - Cronin, James AU - Ross, George AU - Shoch, James PB - Duke University Press PY - 2008 KW - Political Science KW - Left KW - Politics KW - Political parties KW - Europe KW - United States SN - 9780822350613 9780822394518 AB - In What’s Left of the Left, distinguished scholars of European and U.S. politics consider how center-left political parties have fared since the 1970s. They explore the left’s responses to the end of the postwar economic boom, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the erosion of traditional party politics, the expansion of market globalization, and the shift to a knowledge-based economy. Their comparative studies of center-left politics in Scandinavia, France, Germany, southern Europe, post–Cold War Central and Eastern Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States emphasize differences in the goals of left political parties and in the political, economic, and demographic contexts in which they operate. The contributors identify and investigate the more successful center-left initiatives, scrutinizing how some conditions facilitated them, while others blocked their emergence or limited their efficacy. ER -