Nach der Bundestagswahl 1998: Die PDS in stabiler Seitenlage?

Neugebauer, Gero; Stöss, Richard

doi:10.1007/978-3-322-93356-0_6

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“…In this vein, arguments from the issue competition approach provide a different linkage between partisans and parties, but not one that is incompatible with the partisan politics literature, as both use voters' policy preferences as a common core for theorising partisan alignments. 2 Moreover, in the language of spatial models of party competition, leftist parties may now occupy the gap on the left where the more centrist Third Way reform agenda should have created a vacuum (Neugebauer & Stöss 1999;Arter 2002;Blomqvist & Green-Pedersen 2004;Patton 2006;Allen 2009). A left-wing challenger can now be used for compensational or directional voting as former social democratic voters are punishing their parties by shifting to parties that are closer to their policy positions (Adams et al 2005;Kedar 2005).…”

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The Electoral Consequences of Third Way Welfare State Reforms : Social Democracy’s Transformation and its Political Costs

Arndt¹

2013

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Table of Contents List of Tables  List of Figures  List of Abbrevations  Preface  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   THE ELECTORAL CONSEQUENCES OF THIRD WAY WELFARE STATE REFORMS Credibility considerations and the prospects for challenger parties  Mainstream parties as potential challengers  2.6 Social democracy and declining class voting  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  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

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