Explaining the Decline of European Social Democracy
The Role of Structural Economic Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8042744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonas Pontusson, Jonas G Pontusson (0000-0001-8550-9022, Cornell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 495-533 |
| Publication date | 1995-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0043887100015197 |
| OpenAlex | W1520481721 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 39 |
| References cited | 15 |
Using a number of different quantitative measures, this article demonstrates that variations in the degree of social democratic decline in nine European countries can be viewed in large measure as a product of two structural economic changes: (1) the shift to smaller units of production; and (2) the growth of private nonindustrial employment. The article explores several causal arguments linking these variables to social democratic decline, and it marshals Swedish and British time-series data to show that the distribution of manufacturing employment by production unit helps explain both the rise and the decline of social democracy
Democracy · Development economics · Distribution (mathematics · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Macroeconomics · Political science · Product (mathematics · Production (economics · Social change · Unit (ring theory · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Unique citing works | 39 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,39 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2024 (27) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 39 |