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The Electoral Consequences of Third Way Welfare State Reforms

Author

Arndt, Christoph

Year

2013

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Type

BOOK

Category

Political Science

Language

English

Pages

282

ISBN

978-9-04851-721-3

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09-Sep-2024

Keywords

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare;SOCIAL SCIENCE / General

Description

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 Democracys 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 democracys 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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