The Transformation of European Social Democracy

Zusammenfassung This book analyses the social democratic parties competitive situation in the electoral arena! the constraints and opportunities of party organisation! and the role of ideological legacies to explain the strategic choices social democratic parties have made and the electoral results they have achieved in the 1970s and 1980s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Social structure and preference formation: opportunities for left party strategy in the 1970s and 1980s; 2. Class structure and left party performance; 3. Left party fortunes and the political economy; 4. Social democratic strategy and electoral competition; 5. Internal politics in socialist parties: preference formation, aggregation and strategic choice; 6. The socialist discourse: political semantics and party strategy; 7. Social democracy in decline? Analytical and normative extensions of the argument; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Beilharz, Herbert Kitschelt
• Assisted by: Peter Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.1994
• EAN: 9780521457156
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45715-6
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 227 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education