How to be a suvivor.. succession strategies (Communist Regimes)

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How to be a suvivor..succession strategies (Communist Regimes)

Maintain the authoritarian Status Quo

Top leader must transfer his personalistic political authority to a legitimizing entity, such as the party or a family.

Is necessary follow a set of rules to reduce the risk of destabilizing elite conflict.

Political leadership

The individual was the most influential person, the leaders were constantly engage to consolidate power through of “circular flow" of power.

Example:Vladimir Lenin

Dynastic succession

Example: China and Vietnam :They are suvivors because they are economically globally engaged

Minimize and contain intra-elite competition

Do it by following four rules

4.Abide by the code

Be discreet about one’s ambitions in succession politics

3. Share the spoils.

"Everybody gets something", elite actors must be given concrete incentives to continue to support the regime

2. Keep the military close

Leadership candidates should be well known to and trusted by the state’s coercive elites

1. Know the succesor

The candidate should be known and trusted within the ruling elite in three ways: position, policy and personality

Personality: Style of rule

Policy: Knowing a priori the reform preferences of the candidate

Position: First-hand experience

Avoid the crisis of leadership

"The succession period is conducive to sudden switches in policy and offers a high potential for disrupting the inertia characteristic of the way the business of government was conducted.”

Pattern of civil-military relations

"The military tended to be subordinate to civilian party leadership".

Corporatist succession

Example: Cuba and North Corea