STUDY DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS WHERE EXACTLY IS CENTRE-LEFT? Value and policy profile of social democratic parties in Europe – from the standpoint of national electorates(value gaps / policy gaps) Report on the findings of a study carried out by policy matters, commissioned by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Jérémie Gagné, Richard Hilmer June 2019 The aim of the study is to discov­er the extent to which the per­ceived policy offer of Europe’s centre-left parties resonates with the values and preferences of the general public and in par­ticular the socially vulnerable portion of the electorate. The social democratic parties in Denmark and the United King­dom have been the most suc­cessful in appealing to the elec­torate’s values and preferences, those in Germany and Austria perhaps the least. European centre-left parties have been most successful in appealing to the electorate’s de­sires and values in economic and social policy, but quite the con­trary in migration and integra­tion policy.