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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