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Social democractic parties and the working class : new voting patterns

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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Call Number
324.2174 REN s
Publisher
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan.,
Collation
xvii, 111p. : ill.
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9783030462390
Classification
324.2174
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Subject(s)
Socialist parties
Working class--Political activity
Western Europe
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