What is social democracy? -- Case and contextual puzzles -- Progress and demise of the world's largest popular reform movement in Indonesia -- The rise and stagnation of Kerala's emancipatory left -- The people power' mystery in the Philippines -- Philippine experiments for a democratic left -- The rise and decline of the Indonesian democracy movement -- Dilemmas of deepening democracy after Suharto -- Kerala's renewal of social democracy -- Counter-movements in India - new opening in Kerala -- Whither reformist populism'? the Indonesian experience -- Implications and options in the North : the Swedish stalemate -- Lessons for a new social democracy -- Towards a roadmap

1. Democracy -- Developing countries
2. Social justice -- Developing countries
3. North and south
4. Political development
5. Developing countries -- Politics and government