Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class : New Voting Patterns /: New Voting Patterns. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Line Rennwald.
• Authors: Rennwald, Line
• 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?.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (111 pages)
• Subjects: Political science; Elections; Political sociology; World politics; Comparative politics; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Political Science -- History & Theory; Political Science -- General; Sociology; Political science & theory; Politics & government; Comparative politics; Political Science -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy; Elections & referenda; Europe--Politics and government
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030462390
• Related ISBNs: 9783030462383
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