An intellectual atmosphere can vanish entirely within months of a political takeover

Evidence

The PA’s actions were not (entirely) driven by deterministic consequences of earlier choices. The Authority’s de-institutionalization must be attributed to factors beyond its control: its heavy dependence on political support and its legal impotence to define its own tasks. When new political actors took stage, big government became less popular, and railroad deficits were cast into its lap, maintaining high legitimacy became much harder. — Georg Schreyögg and Jörg Sydow, The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence, 311 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Evangelos Venizelos, the recently elected leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), rallied his troops. Two months later, the results were plain: his party suffered a humiliating defeat in that general election, falling from 44 to 13 percent of vote share, losing 119 out of its 160 seats. … By January 2015, it had plummeted to under 5 percent of the vote share. Within six years, a proud center-left party in an abidingly stable party system, constructed after a democratic transition, had become virtually irrelevant. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 169 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Establishment center-left parties can collapse from dominance to irrelevance in years. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 169; Exogenous political shifts, not internal lock-in, can dissolve institutional legitimacy. — Georg Schreyögg and Jörg Sydow, The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence:…, 311

Broader Connections

• Exogenous political shifts, not internal lock-in, can dissolve institutional legitimacy. #corroborates (0.80) — Georg Schreyögg and Jörg Sydow, The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence, 311
• Establishment center-left parties can collapse from dominance to irrelevance in years. #corroborates (0.75) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 169