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1989 and the European Social Model: Transition without emancipation?

Azmanova, Albena (2009) 1989 and the European Social Model: Transition without emancipation? Philosophy and Social Criticism, 35 (9). pp. 1019-1037. ISSN 0191-4537. (doi:10.1177/0191453709343384) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:24166)

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Abstract

The post-communist revolutions of 1989 triggered parallel transformation in the ideological landscape on both sides of the former Iron Curtain. The geo-political opening after the end of the Cold War made global integration a highly salient factor in political mobilization, opting out to replace the capital-versus-labor dynamics of conflict that had shaped the ideological families of Europe during the 20th century. This has resulted in splitting the traditional constituencies of the Left and the Right and reorganizing them along new fault-lines: those shaped by attitudes to globalization and EU enlargement (in the West) and by attitudes to EU accession and global economic competition (in the East). Thus, an ideational convergence between East and West is taking place in Europe, radically altering the structure of political competition in the early 21st century. As the new political cleavage cuts across, rather than runs along, the left—right ideological continuum, it is eroding the societal alliances that had supported the post-war European Social Model. The emerging structure of political competition enables substantive changes in the European Social Model in the direction of deepening labor commodification, thus defeating the emancipatory potential that earlier labor-market policies had contained.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1177/0191453709343384
Subjects: J Political Science
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Politics and International Relations
Depositing User: Albena Azmanova
Date Deposited: 31 Mar 2010 07:38 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:02 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/24166 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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