Social Democracy

An economic-social approach that emphasizes socio-economic equality over economic freedom.

According to this ideology, the state is responsible and committed to ensuring the socio-economic well-being of all citizens, promoting socio-economic solidarity, reducing gaps among the population, promoting equal opportunities, creating a broad social safety net and ensuring a dignified existence for all. The state should be largely involved in the socio-economic sphere. For example - subsidizing services, providing social services, social legislation, extensive social rights, and nationalization. Like the Liberal Democracy philosophy, the Social-Democrats accept the democratic idea, and the principle that requires the protection of the human and civil rights of all individuals. The democratic idea preaches that one of the functions of the state is to ensure that each individual can exercise his rights and make the most of his ability, but the social-democratic approach assumes that society has responsibility for all the individuals that make it up. They emphasizes the value of equality instead of the value of freedom which followers of the Liberal Democracy emphasize.