TY - BOOK AU - Rennwald, Line AB - 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. DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-46239-0 ID - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20200813_9783030462390_23 KW - Electoral Politics KW - Political Sociology KW - Political History KW - European Politics KW - Comparative Politics KW - Open Access KW - social democracy KW - electoral behaviour KW - voting behaviour KW - working class electorate KW - labour movement KW - class mobilisation KW - working class party KW - party politics KW - industrial relations KW - social classes and stratification KW - electoral strategies KW - immigration KW - service workers KW - radical left parties KW - radical right parties KW - European politics KW - Elections & referenda KW - Sociology KW - Politics & government KW - Political science & theory KW - History: specific events & topics KW - Europe KW - Comparative politics L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/1ed0a86b-067b-4164-bf03-1b311203ef40/2020_Book_SocialDemocraticPartiesAndTheW.pdf LA - English LK - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41281 PB - Springer Nature PY - 2020 TI - Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class : New Voting Patterns ER -