Electoral fortunes of social democratic parties

Autor(en)

Tarik Abou-Chadi, Markus Wagner

Abstrakt

The dramatic decline in vote shares on the mainstream left in many recent elections has led to a renewed discussion about a crisis of Social Democracy. One popular argument is that Social Democratic decline is the result of these parties' liberal cultural positions and pro-EU stance, with both topics increasingly salient for their traditional voters, particularly among the working class. However, we lack comparative evidence testing this argument. In this paper, we combine CHES data on party positions with ESS survey data to analyze the electoral effects of Social Democratic parties' second dimension and EU positions. In addition, we focus on whether support from different socio-economic groups is sensitive to these positions. In contrast to much public debate, we find that more authoritarian/nationalist and more anti-EU positions are if anything associated with lower rather than greater electoral support for social democratic parties.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Staatswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität Zürich (UZH)

Journal

Journal of European Public Policy

Band

27

Seiten

246-272

Anzahl der Seiten

27

ISSN

1350-1763

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2019.1701532

Publikationsdatum

01-2020

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

506014 Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Sociology and Political Science, Public administration

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 10 – Weniger Ungleichheiten

Link zum Portal

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