Social democratic parties and the working class : new voting patterns
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Social democratic parties and the working class : new voting patterns
(Challenges to democracy in the 21st century)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2020
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: IntroductionSocial democratic parties as children of the industrial revolution Re-examining the class base of the electorate for social democracySocial democracy in crisis: adding a piece to the puzzle of understanding a complex transformationPlan of the book Chapter 2: A reflection on classes
- a reflection on partiesTaking sociology seriously: social class to capture important differences in the labour marketTaking politics seriously: The role of political parties in class mobilisationTaking history seriously: Social democracy as a workers' party, but not only as suchA note: A 'working-class party' is more than a working-class electorateUsing the Oesch class schema to study the transformation of social democracy Chapter 3: Were social democratic parties really more working-class in the past? Conceptualising the relationship between social democracy and social classesSocial democracy as hybrid working-class parties in the 1970sDominance over the working-class voteSumming up Chapter 4: The class basis of social democracy at the beginning of the twenty-first centurySmall and large breaks with the working classThe new fragmentation of the working-class voteMobilising the working class and allied classesSumming up Chapter 5: Parties' changing political projects and workers' political attitudesBringing parties back inBetween pro-redistributive and anti-immigration worker preferences in the 1970sContinuity in class preferences in the 2010sSumming up Chapter 6: Renewing social democracy by re-mobilising the working class?Fragmentation in the working-class vote and the de-proletarianisation of social democracyContinuity in preferences
- changes in parties' political offersShould workers be mobilised at all?How should workers be mobilised?
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