Parties may refuse to moderate one core issue that is nonnegotiable to supporters

Evidence

At the same time, given controversies during 1990–2 over abortion restrictions, the introduction of religion into schools, and the Church’s increasingly strident demands for political influence, SdRP leaders argued that these stances would not limit its electoral appeal and would in fact only help to distinguish it from the rest of the political herd – which either supported the Church’s role, or remained ambiguous. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 907

Categorization

• XREF: Addresses the reader’s question of where a successor party’s professed identity diverges from its otherwise adaptive tail-chasing; connects to divergence of professed conviction from measured behavior. — connects to: Moderation alone cannot rehabilitate discredited parties competing against credible anticommunist rivals — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 652; Member-heavy parties get locked into orthodox stances that alienate the broader electorate — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 687

Broader Connections

• Member-heavy parties get locked into orthodox stances that alienate the broader electorate #complicates (0.75) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 687