Name: #2 - Nick Martin on how party links with organizations can increase voter loyalty by Wiardi Beckman Stichting
Duration: 35 min 15 s
Description: With each election, more and more voters change their allegiance to another party. According to University of Amsterdam researcher Nick Martin, political parties can still form loyal bonds with voters. If left-wing parties invest in their relationship with civil society organizations and movements, voter loyalty will surge.

The problem is of course: “does having good links with civil society make (SD) parties having good electoral fortune” or “does having good electoral fortune makes (SD) parties having good links with civil society”. The so-called endogeneity problem (EP) in (political) research. Or there is a feedback loop between both of them making it unclear what is the dependent and what is the independent variable. Or there might be a cause preceding “good links with …” and “electoral fortune”. King, Keohane & Verba (1994) point to party fragmentation in the Weimar Republic as an example of the EP. Generally Proportional Representation (PR) is brought to front as the cause of this fragmentation. However, this explanation disregards that it was German’s fragmented society that led to the installation of the PR system. Thus, it was societal cleavages that was causing party fragmentation (and not PR) given this fragmentation of society preceded the installation of PR. Marc Swyngedouw

Using a new dataset, of all elections in 31 countries between 1918 and 2017, Simon Hix will trace the evolution of the correlates of electoral support for Social Democratic parties. The challenge for Social Democrats today is whether a new electoral coalition can be built across an array of contemporary groups, such as the precariat, sociocultural professionals, and women and ethnic minorities.


#1 – Simon Hix about the The Rise and Fall of Social Democracy

With each election, more and more voters change their allegiance to another party. According to University of Amsterdam researcher Nick Martin, political parties can still form loyal bonds with voters. If left-wing parties invest in their relationship with civil society organizations and movements, voter loyalty will surge.

#2 - Nick Martin on how party links with organizations can increase voter loyalty

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#2 - Nick Martin on how party links with organizations can increase voter loyalty

Wiardi Beckman Stichting

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