A few weeks ago I called on social democracy to come to terms with the fact that many of its voters are not on loan to other parties, but for the most part gone for good. One of the key problems behind this, I argued, is that the traditional bases of all mass parties are [...]
Squalid Isolation – Social Cohesion, Quality of Life and Losing the Ties that Bind
28/06/2010 by Gabor Gyori
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