PASOK

pasok English Etymology en el ΠΑΣΟΚ, from el πανελλήνιο panhellenic + el σοσιαλιστικό socialist + el κίνημα movement. Proper noun en politics The Panhellenic Socialist movement, a Greek political party. en 2019 Jacob S. Cox PASOKification: Fall of the European Center Left or a Transformation of the System Governance: The Political Science Journal 6 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. https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=governance-unlv https://web.archive.org/web/20250528061743/https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=governance-unlv 28 May 2025 en 2020 Manina Kakepaki & Fani Kountouri Parliamentary Elites in Transition Palgrave Macmillan Press 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'. Derived terms en Pasokification Further reading Panhellenic Socialist Movement Anagrams en akops kapos