Outline Lecture 22. Sociology The State & the working Class
1. The Puzzle
2. Electoral Politics: Przeworski’s Analysis
2.1 The Model: a theory of voting rather than of voters
2.2 The dynamic explanation for party strategies: Nested Dilemmas of Social Democracy
1. Participation dilemma: whether to participate at all in bourgeois political institutions.
2. Alliances dilemma: whether to seek the cooperation and alliance of other classes.
3. Anti-capitalism dilemma: whether once in power to pursue revolutionary reforms
2.3 The logic of the first dilemma: marginalization vs cooptation
2.4 The logic of the second dilemma: total vote maximizing vs working class vote maximizing strategies
2.5 Logic of Third Dilemma: Transition trough problem
Historical Time
Vote for
Socialist Party
Gramsci
Bounds
Total Vote
maximizing l imit
Working Class vote
maximizing l imit
% vote for
the Socialist
Party
shift in strategy
towards reformist
alliance srtategy
limits
mediates
selects
selects
CLASS STRUCTURE
STRATEGIES OF
POLITICAL PARTIES
INDIVIDUAL VOTERS'
ATTRIBUTES
VOTING
PATTERNS
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