The rise of ecology in the 1970s has presented the SPD with a twofold challenge: it questioned its traditional optimism in growth and progress, while the basis-democratic ideals propagated in the environmental movement attacked the classic social democratic policy model. For the first time, Felix Lieb examines the SPD's attempts to find a way out of this twofold field of tension.

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Felix Lieb, Institute for Contemporary History, Munich-Berlin, Germany.