How to Use social democracy in a Sentence

social democracy

noun

• This is a real threat to 250 years of law and social democracy.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• Macron believes that social democracy is no longer a threat to his rule.
  — Sylvain Cypel, The New York Review of Books, 17 Jan. 2020
• In its place, many of them claim to want a kind of conservative social democracy.
  — Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• To some extent, social democracy foundered on an outbreak of bad luck.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• The catastrophe of war, Piketty argued in his 2013 work, gave social democracy its chance to triumph in the West.
  — Gary Gerstle, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
• As a member of the Left Opposition, Hitchens believed in some form of social democracy all his life.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 26 Dec. 2021
• At the other end is social democracy, which is common in Europe.
  — Maggie Astor, New York Times, 12 June 2019
• So what was happening leading up through the ’70s is that New York City was becoming a social democracy.
  — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 21 Nov. 2018
• The city inspired one resident, Karl Polanyi, to a lifelong defense of social democracy.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 23 Apr. 2018
• That is a project for which socialism, not social democracy, may be better suited.
  — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
• But at least Denmark recognizes that social democracy requires democracy, free speech, and the rule of law to keep it from turning into Venezuela on the Baltic.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 20 Dec. 2017
• Blaming Macron for the rise of the far right is convenient for many on the left, who do not wish to confront their own responsibility for the demise of France’s once-robust social democracy.
  — Arthur Goldhammer, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2022
• But there are people suffering and dying all over the world right now, in social democracies as well as dictatorships.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
• For a long time, the proximate cause of this transformation was the slow, agonizing death of social democracy.
  — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 24 Apr. 2017
• The gentlest entry point is basic social democracy, right?
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2021
• Is social democracy doomed to be a casualty of the tech revolution?
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2018
• Millenials and the generation below them seem more amenable both to government and to Western Europe-style social democracy than do their elders.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Feb. 2018
• Adler, the son of the legendary founder of Austro-Hungarian social democracy, calmly waited to be arrested.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
• A year ago, at the tail end of a bitter, interminable primary season, many to the left of Joe Biden were involved in a long-running dispute over which candidate was best positioned to bring social democracy to the White House.
  — Blair McClendon, The New Republic, 19 Jan. 2021
• There’s only one problem: Billionaires and social democracy are both doing quite well, thank you, in Scandinavia.
  — Karl W. Smith, Twin Cities, 23 June 2019
• Meanwhile, the vaunted history of social democracy is not really a story about youth.
  — James Chappel, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2021
• The European Union is driven by a values based approach to its community (much of which is lost on its 500 million citizens), based around social democracy.
  — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 14 May 2022
• The plan would impose a more restrictive and generous government-run health care system on the U.S. than exists in European social democracies.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 31 Jan. 2020
• After neutralizing the threats of both separatism and rightwing populism, Sánchez has set his sights on a bigger role for Spain within the EU—with the express intention of reviving social democracy.
  — Omar G. Encarnación, The New York Review of Books, 28 May 2019
• That outcome would be more bad news for European social democracy in a year that has already seen support for center-left parties plummet in national elections in France and Germany.
  — Judith Vonberg, CNN, 13 Oct. 2017
• The triumph of social democracy in the 20th-century West has imbued Piketty with the confidence that humanity can transition to a new stage of equality.
  — Gary Gerstle, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
• As such, the emerging progressive approach is far different from what prevails in Europe’s social democracies.
  — Matthew Zeitlin, Vox, 2 July 2019
• Is the only plausible way to avert a climate breakdown a full transformation of our society from corporate to social democracy?
  — David Grinspoon, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• At the time, Uruguay was prosperous but embattled, the fledgling social democracy growing so unequal that a Marxist-Leninist group called the Tupamaros had begun robbing banks to distribute money to the poor.
  — Noah Gallagher Shannon, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
• One answer is that although, for some outsiders, Scandinavia is a beacon of social democracy, the reality of life is darker and more complicated.
  — The Economist, 21 May 2020

Last Updated: 2 Aug 2024