Changing Patterns of Participation in Political Parties: The De-Traditionalisation of Social Democraty in Britain and Germany in a Micro-Historical Perspecive

政党参与模式的转变：微观历史视角下英德社会民主主义的去传统化

• 批准号: 388154467
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Lutz Raphael
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl Neuere und Neueste Geschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/388154467?language=en
• 关键词: Changing; Patterns; Participation; Political; Parties

This sub-project will analyse the interaction between the change of political participation and growing socio-economic inequality in West European democracies from the mid-1970s to the beginning of the 21st century. This will be done by comparating the relations of the two Social Democratic parties in the FRG and Great Britain and their traditional working class voters. The decline and changing forms of political participation happened in the context of social and economic transformations which, for parts of the left-wing electoral base, was accompanied by mass unemployment and processes of de-qualification, but for others by upward social mobility. The relation of left-wing parties and their classical electoral base changed successively. Disenchantment with politics, the decline of party affiliation together with an increase in voting volatility as well as the rise of alternative ways of participation are generally regarded as clear indicators of these changes in participation. Thus, the parties were forced to adjust their programmes and their political work, which lead to the 'Third Way' (in Germany: 'Neue Mitte') concepts at the end of the 1990s. The sub-project will analyse how, in concrete terms, Social Democratic parties adjusted their political work to these changes. How, at the local level, did the parties react to the loss of members or traditional voters, which conflicts about representation and participation developed among their own followers? The project will focus on changing opportunities and different forms of political mobilisation and participation under conditions of growing social inequality, however also of increasing cultural divergence. This sub-project starts from the hypothesis that the complex connections between participation and social inequality can be best investigated by analysing the change of group configurations happening in the respective local constituencies. The change of social structures, which definitely happened in different ways at the local level, resulted in shifts of the party and electoral base, and lead to changes in the presence and weight of social groups inside the party which can be seen in different levels of participation in local party work, in shifting programmatic priorities of the parties' local agenda (e.g. topics of race and gender) and in changing profils of local party leaders representing different groups and interests. In a more general perspective, the study analyses the re-adjustment of relational equality in times of change. The analysis will deal with developments in Great Britain and West Germany, comparing two local case or micro historical studies (Frankfurt, Kassel/London).

该次项目将分析从1970年代中期到21世纪初的西欧民主国家的政治参与变化与日益增长的社会经济不平等现象之间的相互作用。这将通过比较FRG和英国及其传统工人阶级选民的两个社会民主党的关系来完成。政治参与的衰落和变化形式发生在社会和经济转型的背景下，对于左翼选举基础的某些部分而言，伴随着大规模的失业和退化阶层的降级，但通过向上的社会流动性而言。左翼政党及其古典选举基地的关系连续发生了变化。对政治的不满，政党隶属关系的下降以及投票波动的增加以及替代参与方式的兴起通常被认为是这些参与变化的明显指标。因此，当事方被迫调整他们的计划和政治工作，这导致了1990年代末（德国：“ Neue Mitte”）概念的“第三条路”。该子项目将以具体的术语分析社会民主党如何将其政治工作调整为这些变化。在地方一级，双方如何应对成员或传统选民的损失，而这些选民对自己的追随者之间的代表性和参与有冲突？该项目将着重于改变社会不平等的条件下，改变机会和不同形式的政治动员和参与，但文化差异也增加。该子项目始于以下假设：通过分析各个本地选区中发生的群体配置的变化，可以最好地研究参与与社会不平等之间的复杂联系。社会结构的变化肯定在地方一级以不同的方式发生，导致了党派和选举基础的转变，并导致党内社会群体的存在和体重变化，这可以在不同的参与当地党的工作中，转移党派的当地群体的计划优先级，而党派的群体和派对的主题则不同，并改变了党派和竞选者的兴趣。从更一般的角度来看，该研究分析了在变化时期的关系平等的重新调整。该分析将涉及英国和西德的发展，并比较两项当地案例或微观历史研究（法兰克福，卡塞尔/伦敦）。