ADAM PRZEWORSKI'S THE ELECTORAL DILEMMA OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY





"The combination of minority status with majority rule constitutes the historical condition under which socialists have to act. This objective condition imposes upon socialist parties a choice: socialists must choose between a party homogenous in its class appeal but sentenced to perpetual electoral defeats and a party that struggles for electoral success at the cost of diluting its class character."

- Adam Przeworski, Capitalism and Social Democracy (1985).