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Record Nr.

UNINA9910411947803321

Autore

Rennwald Line

Titolo

Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class [[electronic resource] ] : New Voting Patterns / / by Line Rennwald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Springer Nature, 2020

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-46239-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 111 p. 10 illus.)

Collana

Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century

Disciplina

324.6

Soggetti

Elections

Political sociology

World politics

Europe—Politics and government

Comparative politics

Electoral Politics

Political Sociology

Political History

European Politics

Comparative Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. 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.