Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class
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Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class

New Voting Patterns

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eBook - ePub

Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class

New Voting Patterns

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. 1. Introduction
  4. 2. A Reflection on Classes; a Reflection on Parties
  5. 3. Were Social Democratic Parties Really More Working Class in the Past?
  6. 4. The Class Basis of Social Democracy at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
  7. 5. Parties’ Changing Political Projects and Workers’ Political Attitudes
  8. 6. Renewing Social Democracy by Re-mobilising the Working Class?
  9. Back Matter