What are some features of the social democracy that is common in Europe?

Answer 1

Features of the social democracy common in Europe:

• Public health care.
• Democratically elected officials.
• State-sponsored social programs
• Promoting the interests of the working class

and, subsequently

• higher taxes

Answer 2

democratically elected officials and public health care

Answer 3

Social Democracy of the modern day variety in Europe is a collection of nationalist, pro-capitalist parties who loosely exploit ties parties with their names formerly had to the working class movement. Before WWI, Social Democracy was united under the banner of the Second International. Most parties usually espoused either a type of Marxism or a quasi-Marxist cocktail of philosophies, although they participated in practice in Parliaments, governments and supported reform. The International collapsed in 1914 when virtually every party of the Second International gave full-throated support to their own country. After the war Social Democracy, now completely nationalistic, worked to prevent the success of workers revolution, siding and uniting with the capitalist parties and often heading the government. After WWII Social Democracy became a reformist alternative to conservative capitalist parties due to the post-war boom. When the boom stopped by the 1990s Social Democracy became completely right-wing. Parties identified themselves as centrists (or Third Way, coined by Tony Blair), not left at all except in times when slogans were needed in some of the less developed countries. Social Democracy today has become discredited and even traditional working class votes who simplistically supported the parties because of their names have abandoned Social Democracy more and more with the passage of time.

Answer 4

Some common features of social democracy in Europe include a strong welfare state with programs like universal healthcare and education, progressive taxation to redistribute wealth, and strong workers' rights and labor protections. Social democracies also tend to prioritize social justice, equality, and a balance between market forces and government intervention in the economy.

Answer 5

Not all of Europe can be properly described as social democratic. Additionally, of the countries that can (Western and Northern Europe), we can distinguish a useful model of two types: Continental and Scandinavian. The Continental model (including France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, et al.) characteristics including industry-wide wage bargaining, a low level of female labour participation (~50-60%), and a low wage-dispersion ratio (lower than Anglo-Saxon but higher than Scandinavian) while the Scandinavian (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and Finland) has economy-wide wage bargaining, a high level of female labour participation (~70-80%), an an extremely low wage-dispersion ratio.

Answer 6

Democratically elected officials and Public health care

Answer 7

Promoting the interests of the working class

State-sponsored social programs

(Apex)

Answer 8

Public health care, Democratically elected officials.

Answer 9

No not at all it is the opposite of democracy.

Answer 10

State-sponsored social progarms and pomoting the interest of the working class.