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Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class : New Voting Patterns.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rennwald, Line.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Praise for Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • 1 Introduction
  • Social Democratic Parties as Children of the Industrial Revolution
  • Re-Examining the Class Base of the Electorate for Social Democracy
  • Social Democracy in Crisis: Adding a Piece to the Puzzle of Understanding a Complex Transformation
  • Plan of the Book
  • References
  • 2 A Reflection on Classes
  • a Reflection on Parties
  • Taking Sociology Seriously: Social Class to Capture Important Differences in the Labour Market
  • Taking Politics Seriously: The Role of Political Parties in Class Mobilisation
  • Taking History Seriously: Social Democracy as a Workers' Party, But Not Only as Such
  • A Note: A 'Working-Class Party' Is More Than a Working-Class Electorate
  • Using the Oesch Class Schema to Study the Transformation of Social Democracy
  • References
  • 3 Were Social Democratic Parties Really More Working Class in the Past?
  • Conceptualising the Relationship Between Social Democracy and Social Classes
  • Social Democracy as Hybrid Working-Class Parties in the 1970s
  • Dominance Over the Working-Class Vote
  • Summing Up
  • References
  • 4 The Class Basis of Social Democracy at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
  • Small and Large Breaks with the Working Class
  • The New Fragmentation of the Working-Class Vote
  • Mobilising the Working Class and Allied Classes
  • Summing Up
  • References
  • 5 Parties' Changing Political Projects and Workers' Political Attitudes
  • Bringing Parties Back In
  • Between Pro-redistributive and Anti-immigration Worker Preferences in the 1970s
  • Continuity in Class Preferences in the 2010s
  • Summing Up
  • References
  • 6 Renewing Social Democracy by Re-mobilising the Working Class?.
  • Fragmentation in the Working-Class Vote and the De-proletarianisation of Social Democracy
  • Continuity in Preferences
  • Changes in Parties' Political Offers
  • Should Workers Be Mobilised at All?
  • How Should Workers Be Mobilised?
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Index.

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