Radical left parties can collapse mainstream social democrats to near extinction
Evidence
Pasokification. Noun. Reducing a country’s main social democratic party to the smallest party in parliament as a result of the rise of a more radical left party. Pasokification has already happened to Scottish Labour. (Definition submitted to the Collins Dictionary, May 14, 2015.) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 168
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the chapter’s anchor concept ‘pasokification’ in dictionary form, useful as an exact keyword term.
- SEED: Pasokification offers a fresh analytical lens for writing about social democratic decline anywhere—consider a piece tracing which party is next to be ‘pasokified’.
- XREF: connects to: Austerity-driven left challengers displaced collapsing social democratic parties across Europe — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 96; Centrist social democratic parties can collapse suddenly into irrelevance. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 170; 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 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Centrist social democratic parties can collapse suddenly into irrelevance.
#corroborates(1.00) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 170 - Establishment center-left parties can collapse from dominance to irrelevance in years.
#corroborates(0.90) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 169 - Successor parties that regenerated crowded out leftist rivals
#corroborates(0.75) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 1523 - A left-populist’s trajectory depends on the fate of its social democratic rival
#qualifies(0.70) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 299 - Post-2008 austerity discredited center-left parties and radicalized a generation into populism
#qualifies(0.70) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 25