H. Christoph Steinhardt
hcsteinhardt.bsky.social
H. Christoph Steinhardt
@hcsteinhardt.bsky.social
Associate Prof @sinovienna, previously CUHK, NUS. Sinophone societies, protests, information, social trust, moral engineering, identities, governance. PI of @ERC_Research project ENGINEERING.
And an observational study showing strong and independent effects of populist voters switching because of welfare AND immigration concerns.

(The authors, for whatever reason, misrepresent their massively underpowered interaction effects model.)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The implosion of radical right populism and the path forward for social democracy: Evidence from the 2019 Danish national election
The collapse of the Danish People's Party (DPP) was pivotal for the Danish 2019 election since a substantial bloc of their previous voters moved to the Social Democratic Party (SDP). This provides an....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
At least some political science literature tells us that the Danish strategy could indeed have worked. See here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
When Does Accommodation Work? Electoral Effects of Mainstream Left Position Taking on Immigration | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
When Does Accommodation Work? Electoral Effects of Mainstream Left Position Taking on Immigration - Volume 52 Issue 2
www.cambridge.org
May 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Fair enough though. No need to take this further. I am not trying to troll you.
May 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
You may not like this on normative grounds, and I may not either. But I think we cannot simply dismiss this as irrelevant and declare that immigration restricting positions by socialist parties are doomed to fail.
May 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
When you are a democratic party, shouldn't you be thinking about winning? Denmark may be the only case in Western Europe were a social democratic party not only adopted some anti immigration rethoric, but also enacted relevant policy. Subsequently the populist right was pulverized.
May 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The CDU/CSU adopted some anti-immigration language, but immigration policies remained essentially unchanged. If I were an anti-immigration voter, I would probably not be satisfied.
May 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Sure. I did not claim that. I was wondering if the Danish case should compel us to critically evaluate if a combination of welfare politics + a serious restriction of immigration could be electorally successful.
May 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
So what is the winning strategy then?
May 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Perhaps. Why would you say this strategy worked for Danish social democrats?
May 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Okay. What is your recommendation to socialist parties in Europe for winning back the working class, and winning elections again more generally. Honest question.
May 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Blue labor = migration and woke sceptical working class politics?

What are your examples of failure? It worked pretty well for the Danish social democrats, didn't it?
May 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Wow, what an effect.
March 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Wir müssen wohl eher 10 neue Brigaden aufstellen, die in die Ukraine gehen.
February 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Deal. And I'll show you how to write proper half-page Schachtelsätze.
February 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
@stevendenney86.bsky.social Would you mind if we rewrite our manuscript in German? Let me try to find a journal that accepts German articles.
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February 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM