Regenerating ex-communist parties recruited broadly despite authoritarian roots
Evidence
Those parties that regenerated after 1989 were surprisingly catholic in their recruitment of elites and increasingly tolerant of internal dissent. What mattered, then, was not only the opponent public governance, but also the persistent patterns of elite recruitment that underlied it. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 139
Categorization
- XREF: Challenges the assumption that parties hardened around one identical enemy-led identity survived; tolerant, catholic recruitment predicted survival — relevant to whether rigid threat-based solidarity helps or hinders adaptation. — connects to: Successor party resurgence combined post-1989 conditions, communist legacies, and crafted appeals — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 1197; Post-communist parties survived by positioning as managers of transition for the excluded majority — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 929; Communist organizational legacies paradoxically enabled successor parties’ democratic survival (+3 more)
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 - Communist organizational legacies paradoxically enabled successor parties’ democratic survival
#expands(0.85) - Post-communist parties survived by positioning as managers of transition for the excluded majority
#corroborates(0.82) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 929 - Post-1989 communist successors varied from full regeneration to protest parties
#expands(0.80) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 110 - Communist successor parties post-1989 offer a natural experiment in how organization shapes political survival.
#expands(0.80) — John T. Ishiyama, Party Organization and the Political…, 98 - Expertise from an authoritarian past made successor parties valuable yet discredited partners
#complicates(0.78) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 1229