PASOK
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See also: pasok
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Greek ΠΑΣΟΚ (PASOK), from πανελλήνιο (panellínio, “panhellenic”) + σοσιαλιστικό (sosialistikó, “socialist”) + κίνημα (kínima, “movement”).
Proper noun
PASOK
- (politics) The Panhellenic Socialist Movement, a Greek political party.
- 2019, Jacob S. Cox, “PASOKification: Fall of the European Center Left or a Transformation of the System”, in Governance: The Political Science Journal, volume 6, number 5:
- One of the noticeable trends in European politics in the past decade has been the decline of the traditional center-left parties. This is described by the popular term "PASOKification," named after the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) of Greece and its epic fall from power in the 2010s.
- 2020, Manina Kakepaki & Fani Kountouri, editors, Parliamentary Elites in Transition, Palgrave Macmillan Press, page 131:
- As such, the electoral collapse and marginalisation of PASOK was a prominent example of the general decline of major social-democratic parties in Western Europe, which was often accompanied by the emergence of nationalist, left-wing or right-wing parties. A trend labelled 'Pasokification'.
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Further reading
Panhellenic Socialist Movement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
