Alliance of Independent Social Democrats
The Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (Serbian: Савез независних социјалдемократа/Savez nezavisnih socijaldemokrata, СНСД/SNSD) is a Serb political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina, founded 1996. Its president, Milorad Dodik, is the current President of the Republika Srpska.
History
The party grew out of the Independent Members of Parliament Caucus of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska to become the Party of Independent Social Democrats. The IMPC was established from the caucus of members of the Parliament of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina of Serb origin elected in 1990 from the election list of the Union of Reform Forces. These representatives joined the Serb members of the same legislative body that abandoned it in 1992, after the majority of representatives (mostly Croats and Bosniaks) decided to hold a referendum for the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina).
The Serb members of the Parliament of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, including the members of the IMPC established the Assembly of Serb People of Bosnia and Herzegovina, that was later renamed National Assembly of the Republika Srpska.
Social democracy
Social democracy is a political ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a capitalist economy, and a policy regime involving welfare state provisions, collective bargaining arrangements, regulation of the economy in the general interest, measures for income redistribution, and a commitment to representative democracy. Social democracy thus aims to create the conditions for capitalism to lead to greater egalitarian, democratic and solidaristic outcomes; and is often associated with the set of socioeconomic policies that became prominent in Western and Northern Europe—particularly the Nordic model in the Nordic countries—during the latter half of the 20th century.
Social democracy originated as a political ideology that advocated a peaceful, evolutionary transition from capitalism to socialism using established political processes in contrast to the revolutionary approach to transition associated with orthodox Marxism. In the post-war era in Western Europe, the example of the totalitarian Soviet Union, where the state controlled everything, was unappealing and socialists sought an alternative viable form of socialism that compromised between socialism and capitalism. In this period, social democrats embraced a mixed economy based on the predominance of private property, with only a minority of essential utilities and public services under public ownership. As a result, social democracy became associated with Keynesian economics, state interventionism, and the welfare state, while abandoning the prior goal of abolishing the capitalist system (private property, factor markets and wage labour) and substituting it for a qualitatively different socialist economic system.
Social Democrats (Norway)
The Social Democrats (Norwegian: Sosialdemokratene) is a minor Norwegian political party. It last ran for election in the 2001 parliamentary election where it received a mere 0.01% of the votes.
History
The party came to after a break with the Pensioners Party and ran for the 1993 election, then under the name Common Future (Felles Framtid). In the 1995 election the name had however been changed into People's Will (Folkets Vilje), and in the 1999 election the party had changed name yet another time, now to the Generation Party (Generasjonspartiet). Its final name, the Social Democrats, was approved for the 2001 election after the Norwegian Labour Party's protest against the name had been dismissed.
In 2002 the party was tried taken over by a group of former Progress Party members with Vidar Kleppe in the lead. This however failed, and Kleppe and his allies instead formed the Democrats, and even though this was originally presented as a continuation of the Social Democrats, both parties were listed as political parties in 2005. By the 2003 election the Social Democrats delivered in several protests against the Democrats' lists on the grounds that it was the Social Democrats who had initially registered the name Democrats. This was however rejected.
Social Democrats (Slovenia)
The Social Democrats (Slovene: Socialni demokrati, Slovene abbreviation: SD) is a centre-left political party in Slovenia, currently led by Igor Lukšič. From 1993 until 2005, the party was known as the United List of Social Democrats (Slovene: Združena lista socialnih demokratov, Slovene abbreviation: ZLSD, pronounced [zələsəˈdə́]). Since 18 September 2014, the Social Democrats have been a coalition partner in the Cerar government.
History
Origins
The origins of the modern-day party date from the end of 1989, when the League of Communists of Slovenia decided to renounce the absolute monopoly over political, social and economic life in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, and agreed to introduce a system of political pluralism. On 23 January 1990, the Slovenian Communists left the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and on 04 February 1990 renamed themselves to Party of Democratic Renewal (Stranka demokratične prenove, SDP). Former prominent Communist politician Ciril Ribičič was elected as the party's new president. The party lost against the Democratic Opposition of Slovenia (DEMOS) centre-right coalition at the first democratic elections in Slovenia in April 1990, gaining 17.3% of the popular vote. They nevertheless became the single largest party in Slovenia.
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