TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rennwald,Line
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class: New Voting Patterns 
T2  - Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
SN  - 9783030462390
AV  - JF1001-1048.52 
U1  - 324.6 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Elections
KW  - Political sociology
KW  - World politics
KW  - Europe—Politics and government
KW  - Comparative politics
KW  - Electoral Politics
KW  - Political Sociology
KW  - Political History
KW  - European Politics
KW  - Comparative Politics
N1  - 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; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46239-0
ER  -