Download or read book Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Introduction. Social democracy in the periphery ; Burdens of history written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a comparative analysis of four cases, the authors demonstrate that a virtuous circle of socio-economic development and democracy can occur under apparently divergent circumstances of capitalist transformation.