As a group of scholars studying Social Democratic parties, we have written three short policy briefs for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung summarizing our findings. These briefs should help practitioners, journalists and others interested to get an overview of the current state of the art 1/5

Brief 1 looks at which voters SD parties have lost. Especially in the last 10 years voters mainly left for more progressive parties. Loss to radical right parties has only played a minor role, directly and also indirectly as confirmed by panel data bit.ly/3pL5nmu 2/5