Philippe Marliere
Philippe Marliere is a Reader in French and European Politics at University College London. He was awarded a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute and was a Research Fellow at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). His publications include Social Democratic Parties in the EU (with R. Ladrech, Macmillan, 1999) and La Social démocratie domestiquée. La voie blairiste (Editions Aden, 2008).
Social Democracy: A Force That Is Distrusted But Not Yet Spent
Ordinary people will only start voting for social democrats once more if they ditch the policies that are making their lives a misery. Social-democratic parties were the main losers of the 2009 European elections. Green parties may have done well in their traditional strongholds (France, Germany, Sweden, Luxembourg), but their scores remain marginal elsewhere. And [...]
