Basics on Social Democracy “The first chapter therefore gives a short introduction into the history of social democracy. The central values, which have framed social democratic policies throughout time, are explained in the second chapter.” the fifth chapter introduces different models from industrialized and developing countries and examines to which degree they implement social democratic elements. Finally, the sixth chapter will explain the differences to other political ideologies in order to highlight to which extent the ideologies differ. The scheme of this brochure follows the book'Foundations of Social Democracy' by Tobias Gombert among others. 1 In a few cases it adopts expressions and sentences as they stand. But despite some parallels, this document will provide different content as well as arguments contradicting those of previous papers on this topic. 1 Bläsius, Julia, Tobias Gombert, Christian Krell, Martin Timpe(2009), translated by James Patterson, Foundations of Social Democracy, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Berlin. 4