La socialdemocrazia di Ingvar Carlsson: ambizioni socialiste e neoliberalismo in Svezia tra 1974 e 1994

Economic and social changes since the 1970s and the rise of neoliberal ideas have made it more difficult for social democratic parties to translate their ideals into concrete policies. This article analyses the programme proposed by Ingvar Carlsson to Swedish voters in 1994 and compares it with an ideological text by Carlsson from 1974 and the Third Way manifesto of Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder from 1998. The comparison highlights the differences between the social democracy of the golden age and that of the post-Cold War era, the different ambitions and instruments, and the strong ideological and political continuities despite the challenges.