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978-3-030-46239-0

Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class New Voting Patterns

Publication year: 2020

ISBN: 978-3-030-46239-0

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This 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


Subject: Political Science and International Studies, Electoral Politics, Political Sociology, Political History, European Politics, Comparative Politics, social democracy, electoral behaviour, voting behaviour, working class electorate, labour movement, class mobilisation, working class party, party politics, industrial relations, social classes and stratification, electoral strategies, immigration, service workers, radical left parties, radical right parties, European politics