Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class : New Voting Patterns

• Tác giả: Line Rennwald
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3030462390
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 324.2174 Political parties
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature, 2020
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (111 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 230773
• Chủ đề: 1. Comparative politics; 2. Elections & referenda; 3. Political science & theory; 4. Politics & government; 5. Sociology

Tóm tắt

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.