Thread by @tabouchadi

As a group of scholars studying Social Democratic parties, we have written three short policy briefs for the @FESonline summarizing our findings. These briefs should help practitioners, journalists and others interested to get an overview of the current state of the art 1/5

Brief 1 looks at which voters SD parties have lost. Especially in the last 10 years voters mainly left for more progressive parties. Loss to radical right parties has only played a minor role, directly and also indirectly as confirmed by panel data bit.ly/3pL5nmu 2/5

Brief 2 investigates how SD parties' positions affect their support. Among voters that form the potential social democratic electorate economically leftwing and culturally progressive positions generate more support than left-authoritarian strategies bit.ly/2Nx3FYO 3/5

Brief 3 summarizes strategic trade-offs between vote-seeking and office-seeking strategies. Simply put, centrist strategies might help to increase the size of the leftwing block but probably at the cost of SD dominance within this block bit.ly/2OSs2k4 4/5

These briefs are based on a project led by @SiljaHausermann and Herbert Kitschelt, including the work of @jrgingrich @MarkusWagnerAT @DanBischof @macarena_ares @jon_polk @thmskrr @VanDitmars @nadja_mosimann @indubioproreto and many others. 5/5

Maybe of interest for @spdde @FEPS_Europe @TheProgressives @MariaMaltschnig @wahlforschung @W_Schmidt_ @KuehniKev @beimwort @bertpsch