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Why is the European Left Losing Elections? The Political Quarterly Annual Lecture
Author(s) -
MILIBAND DAVID
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-923x.2011.02203.x
Subject(s) - nature versus nurture , politics , argument (complex analysis) , left and right , political economy , control (management) , scale (ratio) , political science , sociology , economics , law , management , structural engineering , quantum mechanics , anthropology , engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , physics
The argument of this lecture speaks directly to the history of The Political Quarterly and the London School of Economics. It is that the European left is losing elections on an unprecedented scale because it has lost control of the political agenda to a newly flexible right; but it is also losing key arguments about how to nurture human values in today's connected and competitive global village because it has not responded to changes in economy and society; and that to turn things round it needs to address both its deficit in ideas and organisation.