PERSPECTIVE DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS TRANSFORMATION OF THE LEFT Strategic Options for Social Democratic Parties This policy brief draws implications from voter movements and voter policy motivations for social party strategy options. These implications ignore a host of short-term factors that affect electoral outcomes. If social democrats wish to recover the largest fea­­sible vote share, they may commit to policies that woo back voters from green or left-socialist parties. Herbert Kitschelt and Silja Häusermann January 2021 If social democrats wish to maximize their influence over policy, however, they may pre­fer to adopt programmatic ap­peals that decrease support for center-right and radical right parties, even if social demo­crats are not the main bene­ficiaries of such losses.