National Alliance, launched in 1994, was officially founded in January 1995, when the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ), the former neo-fascist party, merged with conservative elements of the former Christian Democracy, which had disbanded in 1994 after two years of scandals and various splits due to corruption at its highest levels, exposed by the Mani Pulite investigation, and the Italian Liberal Party, disbanded in the same year.

He founded the short lived Campaign for Social Democracy ( CFSD ) thereafter, and wrote a book about events surrounding the by-election called The Future of the Left – Lincoln and After ( 1972 ).

Democratic, Democratic Labour, and Radical were all mentioned as possible names for the new party, as well as New Labour ( which future Labour leader Tony Blair would use to promote the Labour Party more than a decade later ) but eventually Social Democratic was settled on because the ' Gang of Four ' consciously wanted to mould the philosophy and ideology of the new party on the Social Democracy practised on mainland Europe.

The constitution set out the establishment of a " Council for Social Democracy " ( CSD ) which was, in effect, the party's standing conference.

Agreements also were struck with rebels from the National Front of Chad ( FNT ) and Movement for Social Justice and Democracy in October 1997.

The current Senate composition is as follows: 20 seats are held by the Coalition of Parties for Democracy ( CPD ): Six Christian Democrats ( PDC ), eight Socialists ( PS ), three Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and three Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 17 by the Alliance for Chile ( APC ): nine Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and eight National Renewal ( RN ); and one independent leaning right.

The current lower house — the Chamber of Deputies — contains 65 members of the governing coalition: 21 Christian Democrats ( PDC ), 15 Socialists ( PS ), 22 Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and seven Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 54 from the center-right Alliance for Chile ( APC ): 34 Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and 20 National Renewal ( RN ); and 1 from the Independent Regional Force ( FRI ) coalition: 1 Regionalist Action Party of Chile ( PAR ).

" Social Choice in a Representative Democracy.

Liberalism Against Populism: A Confrontation Between the Theory of Democracy and the Theory of Social Choice.

Social Class, Social Action, and Education: The Failure of Progressive Democracy.

* Mitra, Subrata K. and Singh, V. B .. Democracy and Social Change in India: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the National Electorate.

The main event in the First Republic in the sixties was the inclusion of the Socialist party in the government, after the reducing edge of the Christian Democracy ( DC ) had forced them to accept this alliance ; attempts to incorporate the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ) in the Tambroni government led to riots, and were short-lived.

Radek joined the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania ( SDKPiL ) in 1904 and participated in the 1905 Revolution in Warsaw where he was responsible for the party's newspaper Czerwony Sztandar.

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After the PZPR was dissolved, Leszek Miller became a co-founder of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic ( till March 1993, he was Secretary General, then Deputy Chairman and, from December 1997, the Chairman of that party ).

In subsequent elections ( 1991 ), Leszek Miller was a leader on the election list of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic in Łódź and, following a considerable success in elections, he won a seat in the Sejm, becoming Chairman of the Parliamentary Group of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic.

On 26 March 2004, following the decision of the Speaker of the Parliament, Marek Borowski, to found a new dissenting party, the Social Democracy of Poland, Leszek Miller decided to resign from the position of Prime Minister on 2 May 2004, a day after Poland ’ s accession to the EU.

* Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy by Rosa Luxemburg

An alternative view, expressed by Otto Bauer, author of Social Democracy and the Nationalities Question ( 1907 ), that " A nation is an aggregate of people bound into a community of character by a common destiny.

In the late 19th century, the Social Gospel movement arose ( particularly among some Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and Baptists in North America and Britain ,) which attempted to integrate progressive and socialist thought with Christianity in faith-based social activism, promoted by movements such as Christian Socialism.

Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America.

* Whitaker, Jan ( 2002 ), Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn: A Social History of the Tea Room Craze in America ", St. Martin's Press.

* Kaeble, Helmut ; Social Mobility in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Europe and America in Comparative Perspective ( 1985 )

* Social Democratic League of America ( 1917-1920 ), an American propaganda organization

Bill Clinton framed the narrative against Dole early, painting him as a mere clone of unpopular House Speaker Newt Gingrich, warning America that Bob Dole would work in concert with the Republican Congress to slash popular social programs, like Medicare and Social Security, dubbed by Clinton as " Dole-Gingrich ".

He moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and joined the Social Democratic Party, the name by which the Socialist Party of America was known in the state.

* William G. McLoughlin ; Revivals, Awakenings and Reform: An Essay on Religion and Social Change in America, 1607-1977 ( 1978 )

Evangelizing the South: A Social History of Church and State in Early America.

* McLoughlin William G. Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform: An Essay on Religion and Social Change in America, 1607 – 1977, 1978.

In the US, Eugene V. Debs, one of the most famous American socialists, led a movement centered around democratic socialism and made five bids for President, once in 1900 as candidate of the Social Democratic Party and then four more times on the ticket of the Socialist Party of America.

Debs persuaded the American Railway Union membership to join with the Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth to found the Social Democracy of America.

Paradox of Plenty: a Social History of Eating in Modern America.

Use of local currencies to boost local economies is strongly advocated by Social Trade Organisation STRO in the Netherlands, Instrodi in Latin America, and Qoin in the Netherlands.

Social philosopher and historian Lewis Mumford criticized the " anti-urban " development of post-war America.

* Gasoline Alley: Comic Art as Social Comment: Changing Life in America Over More Than Half a Century as Seen Through the Eyes of a Unique ' First Family, Avon / Flare, 1976.

* Auerbach, Jerold S., Unequal Justice: Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America, Oxford University Press, 1977, ISBN 9780195021707

Social dance, especially in frontier North America, the contra dance and square dance, has also been employed in matchmaking, usually informally.

* A Cultural Study of Religious Education in America in Feng Chia Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences pp. 149 – 166, No. 18, Jun.

These two founding fathers of The Forward were quick to enlist in the ranks of a new rival socialist political party founded in 1897, the Social Democratic Party of America, founded by the nationally famous leader of the 1894 American Railroad Union strike, Eugene V. Debs, and Victor L. Berger, a German-speaking teacher and newspaper publisher from Milwaukee.

* Sappol, M. ( 2002 ) A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-century America ISBN 0-691-05925-X

The British CSU was the inspiration for a similar organisation in the United States of America, also known as the Christian Social Union, as well as affiliated organisations in New Zealand and Australia.

* Carlson, Allan, The Family in America: Searching for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age ( 2003 ) ISBN 0-7658-0536-7

Esping-Andersen ( 1990 ) constructed the welfare regime typology acknowledging the ideational importance and power of the three dominant political movements of the long 20th century in Western Europe and North America, that is Social Democracy, Christian Democracy ( conservatism ) and Liberalism ( Stephens 1979 ; Korpi 1983 ; Van Kersbergen 1995 ; Ferragina and Seeleib-Kaiser 2011 ).

In the United States of America, and the United Kingdom, the age of 65 was traditionally considered the beginning of the senior years because, until recently, United States and British people became eligible to retire at this age with full Social Security benefits.