Discredited parties must transform organizationally and break with the past to regain power
Evidence
For parties that have been discredited and forced out of power, organizational transformation and a break with the past are the prerequisites for pursuing further party regeneration. Parties that do not manage to break with the past and to centralize early on have greater difficulty in consolidating elite power or pursuing strategies of regeneration – transforming their public appeals, conducting effective electoral campaigns, and maintaining parliamentary discipline. Without these, disgraced and disempowered parties are unlikely to regain power. 2. These transformations must occur early, rapidly, and decisively. Discredited political parties and organizations otherwise face increasing difficulties in their attempts to regenerate. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 87
Categorization
- XREF: Directly comparable to post-1989 communist successor parties that decayed without a new organizing identity versus those that found one. — connects to: Past organizational legacies can foster rather than only impede democratic adaptation. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 97; Parties that abandoned their ideology early exploited negotiation timelines to overhaul organization — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 349; Successful party transformation requires early, sequenced organizational change before programmatic change. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 76 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Discredited successor parties must break with the past early to regain power
#expands(0.95) - Discredited ancien regime parties can survive collapse and win power through regeneration
#corroborates(0.90) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 46 - Parties most needing to repudiate their past are least able to do it
#contradicts(0.85) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 433 - Expertise from an authoritarian past made successor parties valuable yet discredited partners
#complicates(0.75) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 1229