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View synonyms for social democracy

social democracy

noun

  1. a political ideology advocating a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and under democratic political processes.
  2. a system of government achieved in this way:

    Sweden’s social democracy.

  3. Social Democracy, the principles and policies of any of certain Social Democratic parties, especially in Europe.


social democracy

noun

  1. sometimes capital the beliefs, principles, practices, or programme of a Social Democratic Party or of social democrats
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • social democratic, adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of social democracy1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

In its history of dreamers versus big business, the Hollywood Bowl has strived, often with difficulty, to be a model of artistic and social democracy.

Chile and Argentina were also considered models of the “free market” economics and destruction of social democracy that the American right wants to fully impose on this country.

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DeSantis’ Orwellian thought crime regime is an extension of a decades-long campaign by the American right-wing and “conservative” movement to destroy public education as part of a much larger project to end social democracy.

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The Trumpian false utopia promises the benefits of social democracy, in other words, without compelling the ruling class to pay for them.

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The social democracy movement launched by Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal “ran aground in the 1970s,” UC Berkeley economist Brad DeLong told me a year ago.

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