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Hard Choices: The Future of Social Democracy - Christopher Pierson: Hard Choices: Social Democracy in the Twenty-first Century, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2002, 176 pp., hardback £50.00, ISBN 0745619843, paperback £14.99, ISBN 0745619851.
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