Regime Change & Political Authority

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Abstractions about how political regimes and public authority shift over time, covering democratization processes (democratic transition and consolidation), governance-accountability structures (dual subordination), and shifts in the locus of political action or ownership like extra-parliamentary opposition and remunicipalization.

5 abstractions in this family — domain-specific abstractions that sit near one another in structural-signature space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its short description.

• Democratic consolidation — The contested process by which democratic rules become resilient, legitimate, and routinely accepted as the only permissible framework for political competition.
• Democratic transition — A period of institutional change in which an authoritarian political regime moves toward competitive elections, expanded rights and accountable democratic rule.
• Dual subordination — A communist-state governance principle making an executive or administrative organ accountable both horizontally to the elected body at its level and vertically to the superior executive hierarchy.
• Extra-parliamentary opposition — Political opposition organized outside legislative representation, either by movements rejecting electoral participation or by parties and groups lacking seats.
• Remunicipalization — The return of a previously privatized or outsourced public service to direct ownership, provision or control by a municipal or other public authority.