André Krouwel, Yordan Kutiyski, Oliver Philipp and Arne Schildberg Macronism, Corbynism,... huh? Electoral Strategies of Progressive Political Parties in Europe – Short Study HIGHLIGHTS n Four main strategies of social democratic competi­tion can be distinguished when the official party positions on salient political issues are compared with the positions of core voter groups on the same issues: 1) Corbynism (Left-wing economic polarisation); 2) Macronism(pro-mar­ket economic polarisation coupled with culturally progres­sive/libertarian stances); 3) Progressive-libertarian distanc­ing(the adoption of moderate economic stances with culturally progressive policies) and 4) Catch-all(traditional social democratic centrism). n The results of the analysis for the European countries in­cluded in the study show that, with regard to the relative positioning of social democratic parties vis-à-vis their core voter groups, the most beneficial strategies in terms of electoral appeal are the traditional social-demo­cratic catch-all strategy of moderation along both the economic and cultural dimensions, as well as the Corby­nist strategy of polarisation along the economic dimen­sion.