Rethinking political identity: citizens and parties in Europe

Colin Crouch

The political party identities that seemed so strongly entrenched among citizens in the post-war period have now inevitably weakened. Does anything replace them, or do voters increasingly act without any fixed political values or orientations? In particular, are post-industrial societies capable of producing identities in anything like the way that their industrialising and industrial predecessors did? The talk will cover western European societies from the post-war years onwards, and central and eastern European ones since 1990.

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Colin Crouch is an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies at Cologne and Professor Emeritus of the University of Warwick. He previously taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of Oxford (Fellow of Trinity College), and the European University Institute, Florence. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.

His most recent books include ‘The Globalization Backlash’ (2019); ‘Will the Gig Economy Prevail?’ (2019); ‘Manifesto for Social Europe’ (2020); and ‘Post-Democracy after the Crises’ (2020). His new book  ‘Rethinking Political Identity: Citizens and Parties in Europe’ will be published in 2025.