Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class: New Voting Patterns

Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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?