Part IVoter Flows and Electoral Potentials

1. 2The Changing Geography of the Social Democratic Vote

   jane gingrich

2. 3Losing the Middle Ground: The Electoral Decline of Social Democratic Parties since 2000

   tarik abou-chadi and markus wagner

3. 4Who Continues to Vote for the Left? Social Class of Origin, Intergenerational Mobility, and Party Choice in Western Europe

   macarena ares and mathilde m. van ditmars

4. 5Lost in Transition: Where Are All the Social Democrats Today?

   daniel bischof and thomas kurer

5. 6Social Democracy in Competition: Voting Propensities, Electoral Potentials and Overlaps

   silja häusermann

Part IIConsiderations of Choice: Motivations and Preferences

1. 7Voter Switchers and Social Democracy in Contemporary Knowledge Capitalism: How Voter Rationales Signal Strategic Dilemmas of Social Democracy

   herbert kitschelt and philipp rehm

2. 8Labor Unionization and Social Democratic Parties

   silja häusermann, herbert kitschelt, nadja mosimann, and philipp rehm

3. 9Old 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, and markus wagner

Part IIIDeterminants of Electoral Outcomes for Social Democratic Parties and the Left

1. 10Voter Responses to Social Democratic Ideological Moderation after the Third Way

   jonathan polk and johannes karreth

2. 11Social Democracy and Party Competition: Mapping the Electoral Payoffs of Strategic Interaction

   herbert kitschelt and philipp rehm

3. 12The Electoral Consequences of Centrist Policies: Fiscal Consolidations and the Fate of Social Democratic Parties

   björn bremer

4. 13Leadership Turnovers and Their Electoral Consequences: A Social Democratic Exceptionalism?

   zeynep somer-topcu and daniel weitzel

5. 14Conclusion

   silja häusermann and herbert kitschelt