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

• Superior document: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century Series
• Author: Rennwald, Line.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (120 pages)

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.