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Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class
Line Rennwald
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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Keywords
- class mobilisation
- Comparative Politics
- Elections & referenda
- electoral behaviour
- Electoral Politics
- electoral strategies
- Europe
- European Politics
- History: specific events & topics
- Immigration
- Industrial relations
- labour movement
- open access
- Party Politics
- political history
- Political Science & Theory
- Political Sociology
- Political structure & processes
- Politics & government
- radical left parties
- radical right parties
- service workers
- social classes and stratification
- Social democracy
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology
- Sociology & anthropology
- voting behaviour
- working class electorate
- working class party
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46239-0Editions