Politics Against Markets: The Social Democratic Road to PowerThis comparative analysis of Scandinavian social democracies argues that the fate of socialist parties is decided, to a significant degree, by their own policies and reforms_not solely by the changes in social structure emphasized in previous studies. Combining quantitative analysis and historical case studies to demonstrate the electoral effects of party policy, Gosta Esping Andersen formulates a theory that is applicable not only to Scandinavia but