Recently deposed authoritarian successors rarely regain power by democratic election

Evidence

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

Categorization

• XREF: Sharply frames the reader’s core puzzle: what sustains a party’s solidarity and survival once its constitutive enemy/ideology collapses — the post-1989 comparator to communist successor parties. — connects to: Electoral victory does not select for different authoritarianism within a party; Postcommunist successor parties returned to power through the incumbent democrats’ governing failures — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 962

Broader Connections

• Electoral victory does not select for different authoritarianism within a party #corroborates (0.80)
• Postcommunist successor parties returned to power through the incumbent democrats’ governing failures #expands (0.75) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 962