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Strength in Numbers: How Variation in Party Size Impacts the Origins, Evolution, and Durability of Communist Regimes

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Comparative Political Studies

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Abstract

Comparative Political Studies, Volume 59, Issue 7, Page 1421-1455, June 2026.
This article proceeds from a novel empirical finding: namely, there is substantial divergence in the size of the communist party between two subtypes of communist autocracies (revolutionary vs. nonrevolutionary regimes). The communist party is small at ...