Most of the social democratic parties we talk about were hemorrhaging or losing members already throughout the 2000s so I think the 2008 or post 2008 crisis manage seals their fate. It's mainly that many of these parties have also undergone a very deep change of personnel in the 2000s and 1990s. If you just buy into the governing philosophy and thereby basically take away any way to buy of consent from your constituency then you're going to disappear as a party.
Featuring Anton Jäger and Dominik Leusder on Europe and the European Union from the crises of social democratic welfare states in the 1970s and 80s, the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, through the eurozone crisis, to the present moment of war in Ukraine, renewed NATO expansion, and a resurgent far right.
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