Regime-divide effects decay only as accumulated new records replace past reputation
Evidence
Parliamentary acceptance, for its part, was largely a function of the parties’ usable past and the reputations it engendered. These effects of the parties’ communist past would wane as parliamentary and electoral records would eventually begin to serve as the basis for the voters and other parties, but they persisted for several years, for lack of other signals. Coalitions were consequently a function of the regime divide. Other parties hesitated to form coalitions with controversial partners, for fear of electoral repercussions. Where the regime divide was more shallow, other cleavages could determine party coalitions. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 1433
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: Maps directly onto the reader’s core question: when no new signals exist, past-based stigma persists — implying manufactured-threat solidarity decays only when replacement evidence accumulates.
- XREF: Mirrors the general finding that informational substitutes determine how quickly constitutive identities fade. — connects to: Confirmation bias and inertia make reputations resistant to disconfirming evidence