Class Structure and Social Democratic Party Strategy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6228551 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Herbert Kitschelt (0000-0003-4757-4098, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 299-337 |
| Publication date | 1993-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1234 • E-ISSN: 1469-2112 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007123400006633 |
| OpenAlex | W2171733126 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
| References cited | 35 |
Arguments that infer the inevitable decline of European socialist and social democratic parties from the changing class structures of advanced capitalist societies have two major flaws. Firstly, they do not adequately reconstruct the link between citizens' experiences in markets, work organizations and the sphere of social reproduction, on the one hand, and the formation of political consciousness, on the other. Secondly, such propositions do not model the strategic terrain of party competition and intra-party decision making on which socialist politicians devise voter appeals. This article will first present a sketch of an alternative theory of preference formation that does not rely on conventional class categories and then analyse party competition as faced by social democrats under advanced capitalism. It will then test ‘naive’ and ‘sophisticated’ theories of class politics and account for their shortcomings in terms of the alternative theoretical framework
Capitalism · Class (philosophy · Competition (biology · Democracy · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Microeconomics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Preference · Sketch · Social class · Sociology · Computer Science · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Radical Right
Electoral Engineering
Cultural Backlash
Citizen Support for the Welfare State
Causal attributions of poverty
When voters favour the social investment welfare state
The Social and Demographic Structure of Austrian Parties, 1945-93
The “Bourgeois” Dimension
Cambios programáticos y estratégicos de la derecha en Chile (1989-2013)
The Paradoxes of Instrumental Acceptance of Democracy
Divisiones del sector de empleo y comportamiento político en la clase de servicio. España, 1989-2000
One Size Does Not Fit All
Vertical Transfers, Political Alignment, and Efficiency in Local Government
After the Left-Right (Dis)continuum
Dimensions and alignments in european union politics
The Trade Origins of Economic Nationalism
Conflicto democracia/autoritarismo y sus bases sociales en Chile, 1973-1995
El conflicto democracia/autoritarismo y sus bases sociales en Chile, 1973-1995
Gonna Party Like It's 1899
Political traditions and the role of the state
The Dilemma of Financial Liberalization
Los partidos políticos chilenos
Bringing Party Ideology Back In
Empty Nets
Public Foreplay’ or Programmes for Government? The Content of the 2015 Party Manifestos
Defeat at Home? Issue-Ownership and Social Democratic Support in Scandinavia
The declining electoral relevance of traditional cleavage groups
The Socio-Structural Basis of the Long-Term Decline in Traditional Left-Right Class Voting in Affluent Democracies, 1964‐2019
Occupations as a Site of Political Preference Formation
From "Grand Coalition" To Left-Right Confrontation
The Origins of Financial Openness
Depolarization, Repolarization and Redistributive Ideological Change in Britain, 1983–2016
So Close But So Far
El PT de Brasil
Os discursos programáticos dos partidos políticos na América Latina
Party brands and voting
The blackcoated worker
The second industrial divide
The blackcoated worker
British political parties
The Market Experience
Ideology, Strategy and Party Change
The class structure of the advanced societies.
Challenging the political order
Marxism without Micro-Foundations
Working-Class Formation
State, Economy and Society in Western Europe, 1815–1975
Distinction
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Capitalism and Social Democracy
British Political Parties
Entstrukturierte Klassengesellschaft
Towards a more open model of competition
The Spanish Voter
The Internal Politics of Parties
Opinion Structure of Political Parties
Party Competition and Party System Change
Value orientation, left‐right placement and voting
Party strategies and the electoral trade‐off of class‐based parties
Labor and the Limits of the Welfare State
Optimal Electoral Strategies for Socialist Parties
Centripetal and Centrifugal Incentives in Electoral Systems
Social Democracy and Rational Workers
The British Electorate Twenty Years On
Paper Stones
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2026 (33) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |