Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction and theoretical framework / Silja Häusermann, Herbert Kitschelt -- Part I: Voter flows and electoral potentials -- The changing geography of the social democratic vote / Jane Gingrich -- Losing the middle ground : the electoral decline of social democratic parties since 2000 / Tarik Abou-Chadi, Markus Wagner -- Who continues to vote for the left? : social class of origin, intergenerational mobility and party choice in Western Europe / Macarena Ares, Mathilde M. van Ditmars -- Lost in transition : where are all the social democrats today? / Daniel Bischof, Thomas Kurer -- Social democracy in competition : voting propensities, electoral potentials and overlaps / Silja Häusermann -- Part II: Considerations of choice : motivations and preferences -- Vote switchers and social democracy in contemporary knowledge capitalism : voter rationales signal strategic dilemmas of social democracy / Herbert Kitschelt, Philipp Rehm -- Labor unionization and social democratic parties / Silja Häusermann, Herbert Kitschelt, Nadja Mosimann, Philipp Rehm -- Old left, new left, centrist or left national? : determinants of support for different social democratic programmatic strategies / Tarik Abou-Chadi, Silja Häusermann, Reto Mitteregger, Nadja Mosimann, Markus Wagner -- Part III: Determinants of electoral outcomes for social democratic parties and the left -- Voter responses to social democratic ideological moderation after the third way / Jonathan Polk, Johannes Karreth -- Social democracy and party competition : mapping the electoral payoffs of strategic interaction / Herbert Kitschelt, Philipp Rehm -- The electoral consequences of centrist policies : fiscal consolidations and the fate of social democratic parties / Björn Bremer -- Leadership turnovers and their electoral consequences : a social democratic exceptionalism? / Zeynep Somer-Topcu, Daniel Weitzel -- Conclusion / Silja Häusermann, Herbert Kitschelt.

"Explores how social democratic parties can win back voters and articulate their ideas through other party channels. This book addresses the core of debates within social democratic parties and left parties more broadly conceived. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core"-- Provided by publisher.