Authoritarian-era organizational practices determine successor parties’ democratic survival skills
Evidence
If the sources of these elite resources lie in previous authoritarian practices, these skills and usable pasts should reflect the variation in the organizational practices of the ancien regime. In the case of the communist successor parties, predemocratic organizational practices – internal policies of recruitment and advancement, policy reform, and negotiation with the opposition – influenced the elites’ degree of pragmatic orientation, their ability and will to centralize the parties, and their skill in responding to and communicating effectively with the public, respectively. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 88
Categorization
- XREF: Directly answers the reader’s core question of which parties survived democratization — the answer is those whose elites carried usable skills from authoritarian-era practices. — connects to: Prior organizational practices, not ideology, shaped successor party strategies — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 101; Skills that sustained authoritarian rule can be repurposed for democratic success afterward — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 122; Authoritarian party organizations paradoxically produced skilled elites that won democratic competition — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 139 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Pre-democratic organizational practices shaped successor parties’ post-regime survival capacities
#corroborates(0.95) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 88 - Communist-era organizational flexibility determined which parties later thrived democratically
#corroborates(0.95) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 62 - Communist organizational legacies paradoxically enabled successor parties’ democratic survival
#corroborates(0.92) - Authoritarian-era party practices can later produce democratic competence
#expands(0.90) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 122 - Distinct organizational practices shaped how successor parties survived
#corroborates(0.90) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 152 - Authoritarian-era institutional choices can shape political behavior after democratic openings.
#corroborates(0.88) — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 13 - Authoritarian coalition-building approaches shape post-transition political incentives.
#corroborates(0.75) — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 30