Authoritarian regimes leave long-lasting legacies in the politics and society of new democracies. However, the way in which a new democracy is established can also have important consequences, interacting with legacies of the authoritarian regime in different ways. The papers in this panel contribute to the growing research on the comparative analysis of legacies of authoritarianism in post-authoritarian democracies by addressing the way in which such interaction has taken place in important historical cases and for important phenomena ranging from the politics of memory to the spread of pro-democratic attitudes.