The electoral consequences of third way welfare state reforms : social democracy's transformation and its political costs /
Dit boek analyseert de electorale gevolgen van de hervormingen in de welvaartsstaat in vier liberaal sociaaldemocratische landen in Europa. Deze zogenaamde 'Derde Weg-sociaaldemocraten' hervormden de welvaartsstaat zodanig dat een deel van het sociaaldemocratische electoraat zich definitie...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Changing welfare states.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Empirical puzzle
- 1.2 The arguments in brief
- 1.3 Structure of the book
- 2 Theoretical Background
- 2.1 The political-economic and societal background to Third Way policies
- Social Democracy's transformation towards the Third Way
- 2.2 Social policy and the welfare state as a base for social democratic alignment
- 2.3 Welfare state reform as a catalyst for partisan dealignment
- Comparison of traditional social democratic and Third Way social policy
- 2.4 Decommodification, social class and conceptualising the social democratic core constituency
- 2.5 Political system, party competition and welfare reforms
- The impact of the electoral system for the electoral effects of the reforms
- Competitor parties for social democracy after Third Way reforms under PR.
- Challenge from the left
- Challenge from the right
- Credibility considerations and the prospects for challenger parties
- Mainstream parties as potential challengers
- 2.6 Social democracy and declining class voting
- 3 Design and Methods
- 3.1 Case selection and strategy of comparison
- 3.2 Analysis of reforms
- 3.3 Analysis of the electoral consequences of reforms
- 3.4 Data sources for the statistical analysis
- 3.5 Organisation of chapters
- 4 United Kingdom
- 4.1 The social policy of the Labour Party
- 4.2 Alignment of the social democratic core constituency in the United Kingdom
- 4.3 Welfare state reforms in Britain under New Labour, 1997-2005
- 4.4 Party competition around welfare state reforms, 1997-2005.
- 4.5 Data and variables
- 4.6 Results
- Attitudes towards Labour's policy and voting behaviour after 1997
- Electoral effects of Labour's policy change, 1997-2001
- Electoral effects of Labour's policy change, 2001-05
- 4.7 Conclusion
- 5 Germany
- 5.1 The social policy of German social democracy
- 5.2 Alignment of the social democratic core constituency in Germany
- 5.3 Welfare state reforms in Germany and their political context, 1998-2009
- 5.4 Party competition on welfare state reforms in Germany, 1998-2009
- 5.5 Data and variables
- 5.6 Results
- Attitudes towards reform proposals and actual reforms
- First red-green cabinet, 1998-2002
- Second red-green cabinet, 2002-05
- The SPD in the Grand Coalition, 2005-09
- 5.7 Conclusion.
- 6 Denmark
- 6.1 The social policy of social democracy in Denmark
- 6.2 The traditional core constituency of Danish social democracy
- 6.3 The labour market reforms under social democratic governments, 1993-2001
- 6.4 Party competition and welfare state reforms, 1993-2001
- 6.5 Data and variables
- 6.6 Results
- Attitudes towards reform proposals and party choice after 1993
- Alignment of SD's core constituency, 1994-98
- Alignment of SD's core constituency and breakthrough of the Danish People's Party, 1998-2001
- 6.7 Conclusion
- 7 Sweden
- 7.1 The Swedish social democratic party and its social policy
- 7.2 The core constituency of Swedish social democracy
- 7.3 The Third Road, crisis responses and welfare state reforms in the 1980s and 1990s
- 7.4 Party competition in Sweden, 1991-2006.
- 7.5 Data
- 7.6 Analysis
- Attitudes towards labour market reform proposals and party shares
- The electoral punishment after the crisis, 1994-98
- The sap's recovery and the Left Party's setback, 1998-2002
- 7.7 The sap's electoral fortunes in opposition
- 7.8 Conclusion
- 8 Comparative Summary
- 8.1 General expectations and summary of findings
- The role of the electoral system for the electoral effects of the reforms
- The role of party competition for the electoral effects of the reforms
- 8.2 Discussion of rival explanations
- 9 Discussion
- 9.1 Applicability of arguments to other countries
- 9.2 Contribution to existing literature and political implications
- 9.3 Implications for future research on social democracy.