Centrist social democratic parties can collapse suddenly into irrelevance.
Evidence
In a snap election held one month later, the party bled out eight more 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. Steadily, the word “Pasokification” imposed itself as a de facto signifier of the sudden collapse of a social democratic party (as a punishment for becoming centrist) and the subsequent opening up of a political space to the advantage of an upstart contender on its left. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 170
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the term ‘Pasokification’ clearly with its causal connotation.
- CANDY: Pasokification is a punchy coinage explaining a dramatic real political collapse.
- XREF: Relates to voter realignment and the decline of mainstream center-left parties treating centrism as electoral punishment. — connects to: Radical left parties can collapse mainstream social democrats to near extinction — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 168; 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; Early popular support for a party can erode completely over decades — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 142 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Establishment center-left parties can collapse from dominance to irrelevance in years.
#corroborates(0.98) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 169 - Austerity-driven left challengers displaced collapsing social democratic parties across Europe
#exemplifies(0.95) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 96 - Early popular support for a party can erode completely over decades
#qualifies(0.80) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 142 - Populist breakthroughs erupt when social democratic alternatives fail and mediation channels clog
#complicates(0.78) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 80 - The Right’s rise depends structurally on the Left’s failure in power.
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