BIn the federal election four years ago, the Social Democratic Party violently exceeded 20%. This is the worst result in the history of the Federal Social Democratic Party. The current opinion polls do not indicate that the September 26 election may be a brilliant re-emergence experience for them.However, the state elections in the past few months have presented a mixed picture: both times have been disastrous for them. Social Democratic Party: In Baden-Württemberg, one of Germany’s most dynamic business locations, the Social Democratic Party won only 11% of the vote, while in Saxony-Anhalt, the party’s vote fell to 8.4%. On the other hand, in Lower Saxony, Hamburg, and Rhineland-Palatinate, the Social Democratic Party was able to defend its position under the sun of the government; Prime Minister Maru Dreyer’s bonus and her personal reputation were rewarded. However, in addition to this, the Social Democratic Party is currently in a difficult situation, as are many European countries.
For example, in France and the Netherlands, even if the socialists gave signs of life in the French regional elections, the past glory is no longer there. The Dutch Labor Party has shrunk into a small party among many small parties. At the same time, there are some impressive regional exceptions: In the Iberian Peninsula and Scandinavia, the Social Democratic Party continues to be one of the main political forces and provides the main government personnel. However, in Sweden, they no longer have the hegemony they once had.
After SPD Bundestag election The Prime Minister, based on the latest experience and current mood, may not even believe the most loyal party loyalists. So, does the decline of German social democracy continue?
The end of the era of social democracy?
Many years ago, the end of social democracy was written and heatedly discussed.Great sociologist Ralph Darrendorf As an accompanying and result of the end of the history of industrial society, the “end of the era of social democracy” was declared as early as the 1980s. From the point of view of party politics, this not only means and is not the main one, but the text is often interpreted as a scene of the decline of social democracy. However, has the party system in Germany and other countries now reached the point where the Social Democratic Party disappeared without a trace? Let us ask the professionals: Is the downfall of the Social Democratic Party irreversible? Professor Schroeder, are they becoming an endangered political species?
Wolfgang Schroeder, an expert on the political system of the Federal Republic of Kassel University, painted a complicated picture. Changes in the social structure-beyond Germany-have attacked the foundations of tradition. At the same time, after the war, social democracy showed that it was able to adapt to new social structural conditions and weave new social groups into voters. “This has changed our customer base and embedded new groups.” Nevertheless, the old core of the Social Democratic Party brand has shrunk: material and distribution political issues have changed, and these issues are based on the national/market axis. Towards the axis of authoritarianism/liberals, material/post-material given-followed by “the structural weakening of social democratic attractiveness and attractiveness.” This brings us to a balance between old and new SPD.
