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Explaining the Crisis and Electoral Decline of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the Era of Welfare State Retrenchment (2002-2012)

The article analyzes the relationship between the drastic electoral decline of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the party's earlier leadership role in retrenching the German welfare state in the Hartz reforms after 2002. Starting with a survey of the SPD's recent political history, the article explains how the government of Gerhard Schröder advanced welfare retrenchment policies that abandoned the SPD's core electorate. The conclusion refers to party sociologist Otto Kirchheimer's theory of the catch-all party to demonstrate how welfare retrenchment policies create new structural barriers against the ability of the SPD to compete successfully in elections.

Explaining the Crisis and Electoral Decline of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the Era of Welfare State Retrenchment (2002-2012)

Urheber*in: Dostal, Jörg Michael

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Extent
Seite(n): 271-310
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

Bibliographic citation
Journal of the Korean-German Association for Social Sciences / Zeitschrift der Koreanisch-Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozialwissenschaften, 22(4)

Subject
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Wirtschaft
Politikwissenschaft
soziale Sicherung
Arbeitsmarktpolitik
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Sozialdemokratie
SPD
Sozialstaat
Wohlfahrtsstaat
Sozialpolitik
Hartz-Reform
Sozialabbau
Sozialversicherung
Leistungskürzung
Parteipolitik
Regierungspartei
Arbeitsmarktpolitik

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Dostal, Jörg Michael
Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Deutschland
(when)
2012

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-55576-2
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Object type

  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Associated

  • Dostal, Jörg Michael

Time of origin

  • 2012

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