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Elites after State Socialism: Theories and Analysis: Elite Transformations

Editat de John Higley, György Lengyel Contribuţii de Attila Bartha, Jozsef Borocz, John A. Gould, Dobrinka Kostova, David Lane, Mladen Lazic, Gyorgy Lengyel, Bogdan Mach, Pavel Machonin, Jan Pakulski, Åkos Róna-Tas, Dusko Sekulic, Zeljika Sporer, Soña Szomolányi, Rudolf L. Tokes, Milan Tucek, Christian Welzel, Wlodzimierz Wesolowski
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mar 2000
This distinctive book presents valuable new research on the political and economic elites that have emerged in Central and Eastern Europe since the demise of state socialism. Integrating theoretically informed analysis with fresh empirical data, the contributors significantly enhance our understanding of the evolution and interplay of elites in the post-communist period. Leading experts explore the elite circulations, differentiations, and competitions that now underpin- but in some countries also still inhibit-democratic stability and economic growth. A provocative concluding chapter assesses the century-long confrontation between elite theory and Marxism and where they stand today, after state socialismOs collapse.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780847698974
ISBN-10: 0847698971
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 148 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:0264
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield
Seria Elite Transformations

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 1 Introduction: Elite Configurations after State Socialism
Part 4 I: POLITICAL ELITE CHANGE
Chapter 5 2 The Czech Republic: New Elites and Social Change
Chapter 6 3 Slovakia: Elite Disunity and Convergence
Chapter 7 4 Hungary: Elites and the Use and Abuse of Democratic Institutions
Chapter 8 5 Poland: The Political Elite's Transformational Correctness
Chapter 9 6 East Germany: Elite Change and Democracy's "Instant Success"
Chapter 10 7 Serbia: The Adaptive Reconstruction of Elites
Part 11 II: ECONOMIC ELITE CHANGE
Chapter 12 8 Croatia: The Circulation and Reproduction of Managerial and Political Elites
Chapter 13 9 Hungary: Banker and Managers after State Socialism
Chapter 14 10 Russia: The Oil Elite's Evolution, Divisions, and Outlooks
Chapter 15 11 Bulgaria: Economic Elites in the 1990s
Chapter 16 12 Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland: Pre-Socialist Legacies among Post-Socialist Business Elites
Chapter 17 Epilogue:Elite Theory versus Marxism: The Twentieth Century's Verdict
Chapter 18 Index
Chapter 19 About the Editors and Contributors

Recenzii

This is an interesting book that has many fine chapters and contains some interesting ideas.
Elites after State Socialism is an edited collection of informative examinations of elite dynamics in nine East European countries in the 1990s. It is impossible to encompass here all questions and conclusions that readers might find interesting in the book: the relationship between post-socialist elites and democratic advance; the disjunction between elite ideas and practices; the considerable isolation of political elites from the public; the diverging and often clashing interests within and between political and economic elites, the process of elite mobility and so on. Elites after State Socialism adds to a growing body of research on post-socialist politics and society in Eastern Europe. The chapters would be of interest to people trying to understand the process of contemporary economic and political decision-making in the nine individual countries.
No review can do justice to the wealth of informed comment and detailed analysis of survey and other evidence in this book.
The contributions are, without exeption, thoughtful and accessible.
An excellent collection. . . . The essays cohere well, and we are able to hear a number of distinctive 'voices' on the elites question. . . . The scholarship meets the highest standard, and the writing is clear and accessible. A substantial advance in the literature both on post-communism and on elites.
Here is a book that actually lives up to its billing. The editors claim that it is "a substantial advance in the literature on postcolonialist politics and societies and in the comparative study of elites" (p. ix). It is exactly that. This book is a welcome and major advance in the study of elites which should stimulate following up and replication.
Much of the recent analysis on postcommunist states focuses on elites, and the Higley and Lengyel book is a valuable contribution to this literature. The scope of the volume provides a wide and diverse collection of data and analysis on the region.
A very useful volume on postcommunist elites.
This book makes for worthy reading.