Post-1989 demobilized electorates rewarded lean catch-all parties over mass ones.
Evidence
The electoral resurgence of the communist successor parties was thus neither an exclusive function of post-1989 conditions nor of communist legacies alone, but of how their electoral appeals could resonate against both the historical record and the contemporary political conditions. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 1197 (
#expands, via linked claim)
This surprising survival and resurgence astonished and dismayed many observers. It was as if the Duvaliers in Haiti, or Franco’s protégés in Spain, were voted back into power within five years of the collapse of their regimes on the promise that they would promote competitive democracy and an efficient market economy. Given the popular hatred of the communist regimes, how could their successors possibly return to power? — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 55 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Successor party resurgence combined post-1989 conditions, communist legacies, and crafted appeals — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 1197; Parties linked to hated collapsed regimes unexpectedly regained power — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 55
Related
- Parties linked to hated collapsed regimes unexpectedly regained power (similarity 0.91)
- Successor party resurgence combined post-1989 conditions, communist legacies, and crafted appeals (similarity 0.89)
- Post-1989 communist parties unexpectedly survived and some returned to power. (similarity 0.88)
- Recently deposed authoritarian successors rarely regain power by democratic election (similarity 0.87)
- Pre-1989 party organization, not post-transition strategy, determined postcommunist electoral success (similarity 0.87)
- Communist successor parties revived by championing market democracy, not nostalgia (similarity 0.87)
- Communist successor parties repurposed legacies of past reform to gain democratic credibility. (similarity 0.87)
- Postcommunist successor parties returned to power through the incumbent democrats’ governing failures (similarity 0.86)
- Institutional and resource constraints forced communist successor parties to reorganize. (similarity 0.85)
- Discredited incumbent parties had to prove democratic intent to voters and rivals alike (similarity 0.85)
- Communist parties survived only where leaders grasped that 1989 changed the system itself (similarity 0.85)
- Discredited ancien regime parties can survive collapse and win power through regeneration (similarity 0.84)
- Post-1989 communist successors varied from full regeneration to protest parties (similarity 0.84)
- Communist successor parties won by mastering capitalism, not by rejecting it (similarity 0.84)
- Post-1989 context rewards streamlined centralized parties over mass-membership ones (similarity 0.83)
Broader Connections
- Successor party resurgence combined post-1989 conditions, communist legacies, and crafted appeals
#expands(0.90) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 1197 - Parties linked to hated collapsed regimes unexpectedly regained power
#corroborates(0.75) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 55