In recent years, much social scientific scholarship in sport, exercise and health (SEH) has
repudiated (post) positivist research and has instead persuasively argued in favour of …

The 'austerity settlement'has come to define the post-crisis European political economy.
Since 2010, parties from across Europe's political mainstream have implemented austerity …

This article contributes to the debate within the comparative political economy literature
regarding the viability of market-correcting policy preferences under global socio-economic …

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag vertritt die These, dass die Orientierung
sozialdemokratischer Parteien an einer neoliberalen Wirtschaftspolitik bei gleichzeitiger …

The article analyses the changes within German social democracy up to the passing of the
SPD's new party programme in 2007. It argues that social democracy has transformed itself …

How successful are social movements and left parties at achieving social and political
change? How, if at all, can movements and parties work together to challenge existing …

After nearly a decade of the international financial crisis and its repercussions, what is the
state of the European radical Left? To what degree has the Great Recession fundamentally …

The position adopted by left parties towards the European Union continues to raise
important questions for both those parties and for the EU itself. What are left parties seeking …

In recent years, a growing body of literature has revived its interest in social democratic
parties, emphasising their allegedly irreversible crisis in Western Europe. However, all such …

We adopt a critical realist notion of power to address the ongoing economic and financial
crisis and responses by left actors and institutions to it. We argue that, while correct in its …