Authoritarian-era party practices can later produce democratic competence

Evidence

Since the successor party elites spent their careers in the communist parties and their auxiliaries, these resources were very likely to have their origin in the parties. Paradoxically, specific organizational practices of the communist parties – the privileging of young party activists, the constant tinkering with policy, and the “cat and mouse” game of negotiation with society and the opposition – could both sustain the parties’ rule prior to 1989 and foster their democratic success afterwards. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 122

Categorization

• XREF: Directly bears on whether groups can repurpose threat-manufacturing skills when the original regime collapses; parallels communist successor parties’ post-1989 evolution central to the reader’s comparative case. — connects to: Past regime practices predict how communist parties exited power — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 100; Authoritarian-era institutional choices can shape political behavior after democratic openings. — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 13; Communist-era organizational flexibility determined which parties later thrived democratically — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 62 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Authoritarian-era institutional choices can shape political behavior after democratic openings. #corroborates (0.90) — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 13
• Communist-era organizational flexibility determined which parties later thrived democratically #exemplifies (0.85) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 62
• Pre-democratic organizational practices shaped successor parties’ post-regime survival capacities #corroborates (0.85) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 88
• Communist organizational legacies paradoxically enabled successor parties’ democratic survival #corroborates (0.80)
• Expertise from an authoritarian past made successor parties valuable yet discredited partners #qualifies (0.75) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 1229