social democracy

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Noun

social democracy (countable and uncountable, plural social democracies)

(politics) A moderate political philosophy or ideology that aims to achieve socialist (socialistic) goals within a democratic society and a liberal democracy such as by means of a strong welfare state and regulation of private industry.
A society based on this ideology.

Related terms

social democrat
social democratic
social-democratically

Translations

moderate left-wing political philosophy

Arabic: الديمقراطية الاجتماعية
Chinese:
Hakka: 社會民主主義 / 社会民主主义 (sa-fi mìn-chú chú-ngi)

Hokkien: 社會民主主義 / 社会民主主义 (siā-hōe bîn-chú chú-gī)

Mandarin: 社會民主主義 / 社会民主主义 (zh) (shèhuìmínzhǔzhǔyì)
Danish: socialdemokratisme
Dutch: sociaaldemocratie (nl) f
Estonian: sotsiaaldemokraatia
Finnish: sosiaalidemokratia (fi)
French: social-démocratie (fr) f
Georgian: სოციალ-დემოკრატია (social-demoḳraṭia)
German: Sozialdemokratie (de) f
Greek: σοσιαλδημοκρατία (el) (sosialdimokratía)
Hebrew: דמוקרטיה חברתית
Hindi: सामाजिक प्रजातंत्र (sāmājik prajātantra)
Hungarian: szociáldemokrácia (hu)
Indonesian: demokrasi sosial
Irish: daonlathas sóisialta m
Japanese: 社会民主主義 (ja) (shakai minshushugi)
Korean: 사회 민주주의 (sahoe minjujuui)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: socialdemokratija f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sosialdemokrati n

Nynorsk: sosialdemokrati n
Occitan: sociaudemocracia f
Polish: esdecja f, socjaldemokracja (pl) f, socjaldemokratyzm m
Portuguese: social-democracia (pt)
Romanian: social-democrație (ro) f
Russian: социал-демократия (ru) f (social-demokratija)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: социјалдемократија n

Roman: socijaldemokratija n
Slovene: socialnademokracija f
Spanish: socialdemocracia (es)
Swedish: socialdemokrati (sv) c

social democratic society

See also

democratic socialism