Concentration of Power Resources and the Outcomes of Regime Changes

Understanding the processes of democratization occurring today in a worldwide perspective is an important step to forecasting the consequences of democratization in a given country for world politics and the life of citizens. Within the framework of this work, an attempt was made to link the factor of development of power resources with one of the initial conditions of transformation: the formation of electoral or competitive authoritarianism, the consolidation of democracy based on party competition, suggesting different strategies. In the context of instability of electoral preferences and impossibility to control the outcome of elections in new democracies, authoritarian elites are compelled to enter into electoral competition with the opposition. However, even in this case, the chances of the elite and the opposition may be unequal: the organizational structures inherited by the elite, which have lost the ability to retain the power of power that will own it in the period of the emergence of a new democracy. Assessing the degree of its consequences and its consequences for regime transformations is the main task of this work.