The 2008 crash accelerated a decades-long hollowing out of party democracy
Evidence
So where did this massive wave of mobilization and the ensuing populist turn come from? If initial claims of injustice were a reaction to the mismanagement of the economic crisis, the organizations that arose in response reflected and even mimicked the rampant hollowing out of civil society over the past several decades. The 2008 crash and the 2010–13 convulsions of the euro brutally accelerated an underlying trend: the slow erosion of party democracy. Hence, the short history of content and the long history of narrated below. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 98
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The 2008 crisis accelerated a decades-long party democracy decline — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 85; The 2008 crisis merely accelerated a party-democracy decline dating to 1973. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 129; The neoliberal state hollowed out parties to escape mass democracy’s brake on capital (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- The 2008 crisis accelerated a decades-long party democracy decline
#corroborates(1.00) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 85 - The 2008 crisis merely accelerated a party-democracy decline dating to 1973.
#corroborates(0.98) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 129 - Party democracy’s decline also destroyed the intermediary institutions linking citizens to the state
#expands(0.88) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 150 - The neoliberal state hollowed out parties to escape mass democracy’s brake on capital
#expands(0.82) - Mass party membership collapsed across Europe in the 1980s-2000s
#corroborates(0.80) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 128 - Neoliberalism gutted mass parties to free capital from democratic constraint
#complicates(0.80) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 230 - Mass political rebirth after 2008 produced a hybrid surpassing prior postpolitics
#expands(0.72) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 41