... the West have become increasingly conservative in economic issue areas such as the regulation of workplace practices, redistributive taxation, and expansion or maintenance of the welfare state". Moreover, as Herbert Kitschelt contends, "the changes that occurred in the 1970s and 1980s in the social, economic and cultural structures of the advanced capitalist countries demanded that the social democratic parties ... ...

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