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Successful party reform requires new leaders able to centralize decisively and rapidly.

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aliases@grzymala-busse_redeeming_2002, loc. 93

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Successful party reform requires new leaders able to centralize decisively and rapidly.

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Therefore, the ways in which these parties reinvented themselves and regained support have much to tell us about the conditions under which other disgraced organizations can (re)build their reputations and credibility. Specifically, this study argues that the crucial factor that fosters successful organizational transformation is a set of new leaders with the individual and organizational resources to implement a rapid and decisive organizational centralization. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 93

Categorization

  • XREF: Directly parallels the reader’s communist-successor-party comparative question: which parties survived by finding a new organizing logic (here: new leaders + centralization) versus which decayed. — connects to: Successful democratic party regeneration required rapid centralization and undemocratic means — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 376; Centralized parties with experienced elites adapted best to postcommunist elections. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 71; Successful party transformation requires early, sequenced organizational change before programmatic change. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 76 (+5 more)
  • QUESTION: Is centralization rather than threat-replacement the actual survival mechanism — useful benchmark against the external-enemy hypothesis.

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