Parties that abandoned their ideology early exploited negotiation timelines to overhaul organization

Evidence

Thus, the Polish and Hungarian parties abandoned any pretense of defending the Marxist ideal. Reformist factions within each party immediately saw 1989 as the opportunity to remake the parties. The slow, lengthy Round Table negotiations of 1989, initiated by the parties themselves (however reluctantly), gave the Hungarian and Polish parties plenty of time in which to prepare for the necessary changes ahead. Those changes occurred at Extraordinary Congresses of October 1989 and January 1990, respectively. The parties took full advantage of this period to formulate strategies of organizational reform and to ensure that they would be implemented. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 349

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Successful party transformation requires early, sequenced organizational change before programmatic change. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 76; Maintaining ideological rigidity blocks elite turnover and party renewal — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 221; Discredited parties must transform organizationally and break with the past to regain power — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 87 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Discredited parties must transform organizationally and break with the past to regain power #corroborates (0.85) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 87
• Successful party transformation requires early, sequenced organizational change before programmatic change. #expands (0.82) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 76
• Institutional and resource constraints forced communist successor parties to reorganize. #corroborates (0.82)
• Rhetorical renunciation of the past alone fails unless paired with organizational change #corroborates (0.80) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 432
• Maintaining ideological rigidity blocks elite turnover and party renewal #complicates (0.78) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 221