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Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class: New Voting Patterns

Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class: New Voting Patterns

Rennwald, Line

Hardcover

Series: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030462382
ISBN13: 9783030462383
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jul 22 2020
Pages: 111
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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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