The Politics of Social Justice after the Collapse of the Left-Right Continuum

The combined effect of changes in the structure of the political

decade has lead to the erosion of the European Social Model. This

democraties of Europe. My main hypothesis is that a new political

globalization, is opting out to replace the left-right dichotomy that

The new axis of political competition runs across, rather than along,

constituencies of the Left and the Right. This entails adverse

alliance between capital and labor in favor of commodification emerges

Second, this axis positions the constituencies of the 'old' and the

policies start to conflict (e.g. regarding the agenda of economic

result, the alliance of social forces that supported the project of

labor-force decommodification) is being eroded. This means that

governments enjoying sufficient societal support for active revival of

representation and party government become unfit for advancing a

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