Institutional authority can override a party’s own internal majority preference

Evidence

The Comintern had for the first time nominated a new party leadership against the wishes of a majority of its own nominees. Bordiga, Fortichiari, Grieco and Repossi of the original P.C.I. executive all favoured an intransigent policy of non-collaboration in any such imposed executive; Togliatti, Terracini and Scoccimarro were equally unhappy about the imposed solution, but were persuaded by Gramsci that the dangers of accepting were less than those of allowing a right-wing leadership. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 142

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s scaffolding-theory project: how supranational institutional authority shapes national party politics, paralleling later questions about how hegemonic blocs discipline dissent. — connects to: Early centralized control lets parties shift policy stances more readily — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 704; The party system gives presidents extraconstitutional control over other branches — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 2868