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 The long-term relation between turnout and electoral support for social democracts in Germany
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.. post:: 2015-06-27
   :category: research

.. previewimage:: OccupClass-Nonvot-West-Colour.png

At the 5th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science
Association I had the opportunity to present a paper entitled `“The
Crisis of Social Democracy and the Political Demobilisation of the
Working Class in Germany” </research/papers/>`__. In this paper I
analyse the dual decline of turnout in Germany and of the support for
the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). I show that both changes are
linked and concentrated in a core group of SPD supporters, the manual
working class.

.. figure:: OccupClass-Nonvot-West-Colour.png
   
   SPD intention and intention to abstain from federal election, broken
   down by class, ALLBUS 1980–2014