Indeed. (And my impression is that Demetris Christofias wasn’t much of a stereotypical communist as president of Cyprus, either; he seems to’ve concentrated on the dispute with Turkey.) I was trying to also illustrate another knotty aspect of rigorously operationalizing a broad political prediction like this: which precise kinds of nationalist/communist party gaining power would count as fulfilling the prediction?
Indeed. (And my impression is that Demetris Christofias wasn’t much of a stereotypical communist as president of Cyprus, either; he seems to’ve concentrated on the dispute with Turkey.) I was trying to also illustrate another knotty aspect of rigorously operationalizing a broad political prediction like this: which precise kinds of nationalist/communist party gaining power would count as fulfilling the prediction?