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The Crisis of German Social Democracy Revisited
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Dostal, Jörg Michael | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-15T02:01:28Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-04-15T02:01:28Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016-12-19 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The Political Quarterly, Vol. 88 No. 2, pp. 230-240 | ko_KR |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10371/147331 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This article analyses the dramatic electoral decline of German social democracy since 2003. It argues that the SPDs decision, under the leadership of former Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, € to engage in welfare state retrenchment and labour market deregulation during the Hartz reforms (2003–05) demoralised the SPD electorate. The SPD subsequently lost half of its former electoral coalition, namely blue-collar voters and socially disadvantaged groups, while efforts to gain access to centrist and middle-class voters have failed to produce any compensating gains. While the SPDs decline from a large to a mid-sized party is part of a larger transformation of the German party system, no political recovery is possible for social democracy without a fundamental change of strategy, namely efforts to regain former voters by offering credible social welfare and redistributive policies. The SPD will not be able to delegate such policies in a convoy model to other parties, such as the Left Party; nor will a modest correction of the earlier course, such as has been attempted since 2009 under the leadership of current party chairman Sigmar Gabriel, be sufficient to recover lost electoral ground. | ko_KR |
dc.language.iso | en | ko_KR |
dc.publisher | The Political Quarterly Publishing | ko_KR |
dc.subject | German party system | ko_KR |
dc.subject | German politics | ko_KR |
dc.subject | Hartz reforms | ko_KR |
dc.subject | Left Party | ko_KR |
dc.subject | SPD | ko_KR |
dc.title | The Crisis of German Social Democracy Revisited | ko_KR |
dc.type | Article | ko_KR |
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