Episode 6: Silja Häusermann on the Crisis of Social Democratic Parties

In the sixth episode of “Political Science? No Problem et al.” we
talk to Professor Silja Häusermann about the crisis of social
democratic parties. How have long-term changes in the labor
market affected the electoral coalition of these parties? Have
social democratic parties lost the working class to the radical
right and which programmatic strategies provide these parties
with a way out of their current crisis? We also discussed to what
degree the electoral crisis of social democratic parties is
self-inflicted by the welfare state reforms implemented by
center-left governments in the early 2000s. 


You can find Silja’s website here: http://siljahaeusermann.org/
and follow her on Twitter here:
https://x.com/SiljaHausermann.  The book discussed in the
episode can be found here:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/beyond-social-democracy/B4C5F9FFAF5FF8142DB2E209E6C5C9D0. 


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