The Electoral Consequences of Welfare State Reforms for the Danish Social Democrats
The Electoral Consequences of Welfare State Reforms for the Danish Social Democrats
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福利国家改革对丹麦社会民主党的选举影响
DOI：
10.1515/wpsr-2013-0014
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发表时间：
2013
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通讯作者：
C. Arndt
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作者：
C. Arndt
本文论证了丹麦社会民主在2001年选举中的重大失败不仅仅是移民问题的结果，而是社会民主党政府(1993-2001年)实施的福利国家改革的结果。社民党核心选民反对改革，因为他们打破了非改良主义的范式，背离了社民主义。与文献中的论点相反，左翼竞争对手社会党人民党作为支持者党的功能无法从改革中受益。相反，由于福利改革，2001年自由党和丹麦人民党扩大了其选民基础，改革导致社会民主党核心选民的重新组合。
Abstract The article demonstrates that the big electoral defeat for Danish social democracy in the 2001 elections was not solely the consequence of the immigration issue, but of the welfare state reforms implemented by the Social Democratic government (1993–2001). Social democratic core voters opposed the reforms since they broke with the decommodification paradigm and turned away from social democracy. Against the arguments from the literature, the left-wing competitor Socialist People’s Party’s could not benefit from the reforms given its function as supporter party. Rather, the reforms caused the realignment of social democratic core voters with the Liberals and the Danish People’s Party having expanded their voter base in 2001 as a consequence of the welfare reforms.