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9789048517213
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9048517214
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9789048517220
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9048517222
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (282 pages)
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illustrations.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Changing welfare states
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DDC:
306.09409051
Keywords:
Welfare state Western countries
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Mixed economy Western countries
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Welfare state
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Mixed economy
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Comparative Politics
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Political structure and processes
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Political structures: democracy
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Politics and government
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences
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Mixed economy
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Welfare state
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Western countries
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Electronic books
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
1.Introduction --1.1Empirical puzzle --1.2The arguments in brief --1.3Structure of the book --2Theoretical Background --2.1The political-economic and societal background to Third Way policies --Social Democracy's transformation towards the Third Way --2.2Social policy and the welfare state as a base for social democratic alignment --2.3Welfare state reform as a catalyst for partisan dealignment --Comparison of traditional social democratic and Third Way social policy --2.4Decommodification, social class and conceptualising the social democratic core constituency --2.5Political 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.
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4.5Data and variables --4.6Results --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 --4.7Conclusion --5Germany --5.1The social policy of German social democracy --5.2Alignment of the social democratic core constituency in Germany --5.3Welfare state reforms in Germany and their political context, 1998-2009 --5.4Party competition on welfare state reforms in Germany, 1998-2009 --5.5Data and variables --5.6Results --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 --5.7Conclusion.
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6Denmark --6.1The social policy of social democracy in Denmark --6.2The traditional core constituency of Danish social democracy --6.3The labour market reforms under social democratic governments, 1993-2001 --6.4Party competition and welfare state reforms, 1993-2001 --6.5Data and variables --6.6Results --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 --6.7Conclusion --7Sweden --7.1The Swedish social democratic party and its social policy --7.2The core constituency of Swedish social democracy --7.3The Third Road, crisis responses and welfare state reforms in the 1980s and 1990s --7.4Party competition in Sweden, 1991-2006.
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7.5Data --7.6Analysis --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 --7.7The sap's electoral fortunes in opposition --7.8Conclusion --8Comparative Summary --8.1General 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 --8.2Discussion of rival explanations --9Discussion --9.1Applicability of arguments to other countries --9.2Contribution to existing literature and political implications --9.3Implications for future research on social democracy.
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Challenge from the left --Challenge from the right --Credibility considerations and the prospects for challenger parties --Mainstream parties as potential challengers --2.6Social democracy and declining class voting --3Design and Methods --3.1Case selection and strategy of comparison --3.2Analysis of reforms --3.3Analysis of the electoral consequences of reforms --3.4Data sources for the statistical analysis --3.5Organisation of chapters --4United Kingdom --4.1The social policy of the Labour Party --4.2Alignment of the social democratic core constituency in the United Kingdom --4.3Welfare state reforms in Britain under New Labour, 1997-2005 --4.4Party competition around welfare state reforms, 1997-2005.
Abstract:
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 definitief van hen afkeerde. Dit is de belangrijkste conclusie van dit boek, waarvoor vergelijkend onderzoek werd verricht in Zweden, Duitsland, Denemarken en Groot-Brittannië
Abstract:
In all advanced Western nations, policy-makers have implemented encompassing welfare state reforms in recent decades breaking with past welfare arrangements. In particular, social democracy engaged in significant policy change under the Third Way paradigm and broke with its traditional reputation on welfare that had built the ties with the core constituency in the 20th century. The Electoral Consequences of Third Way Welfare State Reforms: Social Democracy's Transformation and its Political Costs provides a comparative study of the electoral consequences of Third Way welfare state reforms. The book demonstrates that Third Way reforms went against the social policy preferences of social democracy's core voters and indeed produced an electoral setback for social democrats at the ballots. Moreover, and accounting for cross-national variation, the analysis shows that the nature of the setback is contingent on the electoral system and the party competition social democrats face when reforming the welfare state
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