Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class : New Voting Patterns
Overview
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 electoralstrategies.
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- ISBN-13: 9783030462383
- ISBN-10: 3030462382
- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Publish Date: July 2020
- Dimensions: 8.27 x 5.83 x 0.38 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.68 pounds
- Page Count: 111
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