social democracy

English

Noun

social democracy (countable and uncountable, plural social democracies)

1. (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.
2. 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)
• 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

• Dutch: sociaaldemocratie (nl) f
• Estonian: sotsiaaldemokraatia
• Finnish: sosiaalidemokratia (fi)
• French: social-démocratie (fr) f
• Portuguese: social-democracia (pt)
• Swedish: socialdemokrati (sv) c

See also

• democratic socialism