Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class

New Voting Patterns
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-46238-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 111 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 293 g

Reihe: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rennwald, Line

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Sozialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: A reflection on classes; a reflection on parties.- Chapter 3: Were social democratic parties really more working-class in the past?.- Chapter 4: The class basis of social democracy at the beginning of the twenty-first century.- Chapter 5: Parties' changing political projects and workers' political attitudes.- Chapter 6: Renewing social democracy by re-mobilising the working class.

Über Autor(innen)

Line Rennwald currently works on the ERC Advanced Grant “Unequal Democracies” at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She previously held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Amsterdam, the University of Lausanne and the European University Institute.