Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class : New Voting Patterns

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, th...

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Main Author: Rennwald, Line (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Springer Nature 2020
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