European Socialists and the State in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Chapter 1: Introduction. European Socialists and the State: A comparative and transnational approach (Mathieu Fulla and Marc Lazar).- Part I: Acculturating to the state to democratise it.- Chapter 2: Introduction (Mathieu Fulla).- Chapter 3: Between Challenging the Authoritarian State and Democratizing It: German Social Democracy, 1914-1945 (Stefan Berger).- Chapter 4: French Socialists and the State, 1905-2017 (Alain Bergounioux).- Chapter 5: The Planist Temptation: Belgian Social Democracy and the State during the Great Depression, c. 1929 - c. 1936 (Tommaso Milani).- Chapter 6: Paradoxes of Hegemony: Scandinavian Social Democracy and the State (Yohann Aucante).- Part II: Socialists and civil servants.- Chapter 7: Introduction (Mathieu Fulla).- Chapter 8: The British Labour Party and the Civil Service in the Twentieth Century (Kevin Theakston).- Chapter 9: Social Democracy, Labour Unions and Civil Service in West Germany since the Second World War (Bernd Faulenbach).- Chapter 10: The French Socialist Party, Civil Servants and the State (Laure Machu and Matthieu Tracol).- Chapter 11: Socialism, the State and Civil Service in Spain : Two Experiences in Perspective (Second Republic and Democratic Transition) (Juan Francisco Fuentes).- Chapter 12: The Swedish SAP: Civil Servants, Social Engineers and Welfare Bureaucrat (Kjell Östberg).- Chapter 13: The Divorce between Public-Sector Employees and West European Socialist Parties (Luc Rouban).- Part III: Socialists and Changes in Capitalism and States.- Chapter 14: Introduction (Marc Lazar).- Chapter 15: French Socialists, Capitalism and the State: A Unique Approach within West European Social Democracy? (Mathieu Fulla).- Chapter 16: From Marxism to "Agenda 2010": German Social Democratic Notions of the State from Its Founding until Today (Sebastian Voigt).- Chapter 17: "K. u. k. Social Democracy" Reloaded: Austria's SPÖ and the State after 1945 (Maria Mesner).- Chapter 18: The Swedish Social Democrats, Reform Socialism and the state after the Golden Era (Jenny Andersson and Kjell Östberg).- Chapter 19: What's Left of Blairism? The Labour Party's changing conception of the state since the 1980s (Emmanuelle Avril).- Chapter 20: The Italian Socialist Party from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s: Socialists and a Weak State (Marc Lazar with the collaboration of Massimo Asta).- Chapter 21: Superficial Social Democracy: PASOK, the State and the Shipwreck of the Greek Economy (Gerassimos Moschonas).-