Prior organizational practices, not ideology, shaped successor party strategies

Evidence

Less attention has been paid, however, to the sources of these constellations, strategies, and skills. As this book will argue, past patterns of organizational practices bear directly on the new elite configurations. Ideological stances per se matter less than the practical skills and experiences of the elites. In turn, the political resources of these new leaders heavily influence both the set of strategic options available to the parties, and the alternatives that the parties are more likely to choose. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 101

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant counterpoint to the external-enemy thesis: it predicts that professed ideological conviction matters less than practical inherited skills for post-threat survival. — connects to: Distinct organizational practices shaped how successor parties survived — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 152; Pre-democratic organizational practices shaped successor parties’ post-regime survival capacities — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 88; Authoritarian-era organizational practices determine successor parties’ democratic survival skills — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 88 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Distinct organizational practices shaped how successor parties survived #corroborates (0.95) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 152
• Pre-democratic organizational practices shaped successor parties’ post-regime survival capacities #corroborates (0.92) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 88
• Authoritarian-era organizational practices determine successor parties’ democratic survival skills #corroborates (0.88) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 88
• Communist organizational legacies paradoxically enabled successor parties’ democratic survival #expands (0.82)
• Organizational form determines successor-party survival only under left-wing competitive threat. #qualifies (0.80) — John T. Ishiyama, Party Organization and the Political…, 86
• Factional strength shifts through organizational, not ideological, factors #corroborates (0.78)