Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class
In: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century; (2020)
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This open access book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. Relying on different indicators, it demonstrates an important transformation in the class basis of social democracy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the working-class vote is strongly fragmented and social democratic parties face competition on multiple fronts for their core electorate – and not only from radical right parties. Starting from a reflection on ‘working-class parties’ and using a sophisticated class schema, the book paints a nuanced and diversified picture of the trajectory of social democracy that goes beyond a simple shift from working-class to middle-class parties. Following a detailed description, the book reviews possible explanations of workers' new voting patterns and emphasizes the crucial changes in parties' ideologies. It closes with a discussion on the role of the working class in social democracy's future electoral strategies.
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Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class
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| Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Rennwald, Line |
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| Quelle: | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century; (2020) |
| Veröffentlichung: | Springer Nature; Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 |
| Medientyp: | E-Book |
| Umfang: | 111 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-030-46239-0 (print) ; 3-030-46239-0 (print) |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-46239-0 |
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