43 min
Episode 3 - Social democracy The City Politics Podcast
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On 26 November, 1942 the British Government released a report on “Social Insurance and Allied Services”. Known to history as the Beveridge Report, it laid the foundation for the UK’s welfare state. The Beveridge Report was no isolated phenomena. From the Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society in America to the Godesberg Program in West Germany, social democracy came to define Western politics in the post-war period.
Since then social democracy has been left bruised by the neo-liberalism of Thatcher and Reagan, revived by so-called ‘third way’ politicians like Tony Blair, only to be challenged once again by 2008 Financial Crisis and the rise of populism.
Today we will give you the City view on the past, present, and future of social democracy.
Our guest is Dr Lise Butler, Lecturer in Modern History.
On 26 November, 1942 the British Government released a report on “Social Insurance and Allied Services”. Known to history as the Beveridge Report, it laid the foundation for the UK’s welfare state. The Beveridge Report was no isolated phenomena. From the Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society in America to the Godesberg Program in West Germany, social democracy came to define Western politics in the post-war period.
Since then social democracy has been left bruised by the neo-liberalism of Thatcher and Reagan, revived by so-called ‘third way’ politicians like Tony Blair, only to be challenged once again by 2008 Financial Crisis and the rise of populism.
Today we will give you the City view on the past, present, and future of social democracy.
Our guest is Dr Lise Butler, Lecturer in Modern History.
43 min