The 2008 crisis merely accelerated a party-democracy decline dating to 1973.

Evidence

Behind the short-term fallout of the credit crisis, then, stood a much longer process: the slow but steady decline of European party democracy since the 1973 slump. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 129

Categorization

• XREF: Directly pays off ch3’s short-history-of-content/long-history-of-form distinction announced in [98]. — 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 failed to produce a paradigmatic shift comparable to the New Deal. — Natascha van der Zwan, Making Sense of Financialization, 115; The 2008 crash accelerated a decades-long hollowing out of party democracy — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 98
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• The 2008 crisis failed to produce a paradigmatic shift comparable to the New Deal. #corroborates (0.85) — Natascha van der Zwan, Making Sense of Financialization, 115