The downfall of social-democracy

[buritobr]

There was a pink wave in the second half of the 1990s, when Tony Blair, Lionel Jospin, Gehrard Schröder and Massimo D'Alena became prime ministers. In Europe at the beginning of 1999, I think only Spain had a right wing government.
Then, in the 21th century, the center left have been declining. The far left, the greens and the far right are growing, the center right is stable.

[buritobr]

Me thinks the numbers won't be so bad if you add splinter green and left parties, although there is a real shift of social democrats to traditionally liberal economics in Europe.
At least there's a chance for social democratic revival in Canada.
Also social democrats in Latin America are currently at a peak.

Social democrats are already in decline in Latin America. Bachelet had to change all of her ministers because of the decline of her popularity. Dilma Rousseff has a 13% approval rate. Her Workers Party lost seats last year. I think the right will win the presidencial election in Argentina this year because Cristina Kischner popularity is very low.

[buritobr]

the coutries are as follow :

united kingdom
germany
austria
belgium
netherlands
luxemburg
sweden
norway
denmark
finland
switzerland

Why these ones and not France, Spain, Greece, Portugal ? Their parties are as much social-democratic, or as less, as the British or the Swiss one.

I think the author decided to exclude Spain, Greece and Portugal because these countries had dictatorships until the mid-1970s, so it is impossible to have data from 1945 to 2015. And I think he decided to exclude France because there was a time when the communists were the biggest let-wing force, and so, the socialists (social-democratics) had a small share of the vote not because the left was weak, but because there was a bigger left-wing force.