Organization Change Of The European Social Democratic Party After The Cold War

The development history of the party is also the reformation history of it. The reformation of the party usually is undergoing under the stimulation of external environment changes and inner factor development. Whether the party organization makes corresponding changes to the changes of times plays an important role in performing its functions.The Social Democratic Party was an important ruling power among Europe politics. However, due to the huge impact of the Cold War, it began to get lost in theory and sink into ruling crisis and thus had been out of political office for a long time. In the European political field where the competition is quite fierce, it is very dangerous to be out of office. Therefore, the Social Democratic Party learnt a lesson from its painful experience and began to make great full-scale reformations to meet the needs of the voters, and gained a "magical renaissance" with its efforts. Our article is to make a systematic analysis of the reformations of the Social Democratic Party from the perspectives of theory, background, content, effect and enlightenment with the methods of systematic analysis and comparative analysis. We will put special stress on the argumentation and elaboration of the following ideas:First, theory of social distinction, theory of system resources, theory of system change, and theory of party competition illustrate the reasons for the change of the party organization from different angles. Western learners also elaborated the three analysis routes of the change of the party organization, That is, the life cycle analysis route, system level analysis route and mutation analysis route. Generally speaking, change of the party organization is a coping reply to the external challenge of the party.Second, the party is in nature a large organization that is reluctant to make changes. But when the living environment changes greatly, it has to do so to keep its vitality and to ensure that it will not be expelled from the political system. That is to say, the change of the party organization is done under certain historical background. After the Cold War, changes of the organization of the European Social Democratic Party are also made under particular international, domestic and its own background, within which the development of globalization and information, the end of the Cold War and the crisis of the democratic socialism are the international background, the change of social structure and the impact of other alternative parties are the domestic background, and the setting of its fussy organization structures, its obvious social class tint, its limited political involvement channels and its particular party culture not suitable for the changes of the times are the internal factors for its changes.Third, changes of the organization of the Social Democratic Party after the Cold War are full-scale:they involve changes of the organization form, the organization basis, the organization operation, the organization structure, the organization decision, the organization goal, and so on. As for the organization form, the Social Democratic Party weakens its feature of mass party and projects the feature of "multi-faceted party" instead; as for the organization basis, the Social Democratic Party plays down its social class tint and strives to get close to the middle class; as for the organization operation, roles of the party members have weakened greatly due to the intervention of the media; as for the organization decision, the Social Democratic Party has put more emphasis on pure democracy and democracy at the grassroots level after the Cold War; as for the organization discipline the Social Democratic Party make rigid party discipline and reinforce the supervision of the party; as for the organization goal, the Social Democratic Party abstains from the socialism more and stresses the leading role of the values of democracy, freedom and equality.Fourth, changes of the organization of the Social Democratic Party are still in progress. At present, the short-term goal if resuming the political office has almost come true and the Social Democratic Parties of each country have taken office or have participated in government and political affairs. But we should be clear that the inner profound contradictions of the Social Democratic Party are not solved yet and the party is still faced with problems of the voters' trust and identification crisis, comparatively big voting variation; its organization feature is fading gradually due to its policy practicability.Fifth, our Party can draw lessons from the changes of the organization of the European Social Democratic Party. We should intensify our reformation further, take new measures in expanding democratic decisions, reinforcing ruling basis to realize socialist democracy and make our party a modern party that can truly embody and represent the public will.