Who Votes for the Left and Why? In Search of Our Identity

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Who Votes for the Left and Why? In Search of Our Identity
By Angelina Giannopoulou | 05 Apr 23 | Posted under: The Left , Transformative Strategies
Check out our new eDossier with selected contributions from last year's annual Strategy Seminar organised by transform! europe and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation, which took place in Paris in November 2022 and focused on the sociology of the left vote and various conglomerates of the radical left.
The annual strategic seminar organised by transform! europe and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation has been a point of reference for the work and methodology of our think tanks.
Last year we aimed to tackle questions related not only with the European elections, but in general with the social basis of the left in Europe and the reasons behind our weakness to mobilise social strata with our political programme and influence the European politics, both in national and in the EU level. We have been looking at the sociology of the left vote today, identifying the socio-economic profile of those who prefer to vote left, while at the same time identifying those who do not, even though we see them as strata that we could politically represent. Such a process has led us to some conclusions about where the Left could potentially start to expand its social base and, consequently, its electoral base.

You can find some of them in the eDossier, with selected contributions from the seminar, edited and coordinated by Angelina Giannopoulou, facilitator of transform! europe in the programme "European Integration and the Strategic Perspectives of the Radical Left".
Please find the eDossier on the right/below (mobile version) in 'Documents' (English, PDF).

Table of Contents

     PRECARITY AND THE RADICAL LEFT. THE (NON-)VOTING PATTERNS
    OF PRECARIOUS WORKERS IN EUROPE, Walter Häusl

    TRADE UNIONS AND VOTING FOR THE LEFT IN FRANCE AND
    BELGIUM, Tristan Haute

    THE ELECTORAL GENDER GAP(S) AND THE RADICAL LEFT IN
    WESTERN EUROPE, Raul Gomez

    WHY POLISH WOMEN ARE VEERING TOWARDS THE LEFT,
    Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat

    THE POLITICISATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS
    THE LEFT: LESSONS FROM THE GREEK CASE, Maro Pantelidou Maloutas

    CLASS-ORIENTED POLICIES, PERFORMATIVE CLASS DISCOURSE
    AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOUR: INDICATORS FROM THE 2019 GREEK
    ELECTIONS, Danai Koltsida

    STOP ANSWERING CENTRIST QUESTIONS: THE LEFT CAN ONLY WIN
    WHEN IT ANSWERS THE QUESTIONS IT WAS FOUNDED TO POSE,
    Matthew Johnson, Elliott Johnson, and Daniel Nettle

For more information on the 2022 Strategy Seminar and to view the full programme, please click here.