1st Edition

The Battle Over Working-Class Voters How Social Democracy has Responded to the Populist Radical Right in the Nordic Countries

By Sanna Salo, Jens Rydgren Copyright 2021
140 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

140 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

140 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines how social democratic parties have responded to populist radical right parties in the battle for support from working-class voters. It focuses on the paradigmatic examples of social democratic parties in the Nordic countries. Historically these have been the strongest social democratic parties, but they have declined in recent years partly due to the competition from populist... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Denmark

3. Sweden

4. Finland

5. Norway

6. Conclusion

Biography

Sanna Salo is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for European Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland

Jens Rydgren is a professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University, Sweden.