‘Empty Nets’
@article{Allen2009EmptyN, title={‘Empty Nets’}, author={C. Allen}, journal={Party Politics}, year={2009}, volume={15}, pages={635 - 653} }
The Social Democratic parties of Germany and Sweden were part of ‘third way’ movements common to such political parties during the mid-1990s. By continuing to moderate their positions and move away from their traditional bases towards the centre, they seemed to embody — a generation later — a second embracing of Kirchheimer’s ‘catch-all’ party thesis. But unlike its 1960s’ incarnation, each of them in the mid-1990s disregarded their left flanks and saw considerable growth of both Green and Left… CONTINUE READING
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