How to Build a Selectorate Within a Ofthoritarn System

Krushev had a lot of tools that allowed him to dominate other members in elite. Hisuster was much more dependent on contingent factors than political science narratives about unpopular policies or incompetence leading to removal. The plotters did not use establish party rules or institutions to engineer krushe' removal. It was a game of manoeuvre and an environment with ambiguous rules. And so why was krushe so powerful? While first everyone was implicated in his decision making, one of the reasons it was also a coup against the central committee is because they were afraid the people would ask, well, why did you let it get this bad?