Elites after State Socialism

John Higley is professor of government and sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is co-chair of the Research Committee on Political Elites of the International Political Science Association.Gyorgy Lengyel is professor of sociology at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences.

• Chapter 1 AcknowledgmentsChapter 2 PrefaceChapter 3 1 Introduction: Elite Configurations after State SocialismPart 4 I: POLITICAL ELITE CHANGEChapter 5 2 The Czech Republic: New Elites and Social ChangeChapter 6 3 Slovakia: Elite Disunity and ConvergenceChapter 7 4 Hungary: Elites and the Use and Abuse of Democratic InstitutionsChapter 8 5 Poland: The Political Elite’s Transformational CorrectnessChapter 9 6 East Germany: Elite Change and Democracy’s “Instant Success”Chapter 10 7 Serbia: The Adaptive Reconstruction of ElitesPart 11 II: ECONOMIC ELITE CHANGEChapter 12 8 Croatia: The Circulation and Reproduction of Managerial and Political ElitesChapter 13 9 Hungary: Banker and Managers after State SocialismChapter 14 10 Russia: The Oil Elite’s Evolution, Divisions, and OutlooksChapter 15 11 Bulgaria: Economic Elites in the 1990sChapter 16 12 Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland: Pre-Socialist Legacies among Post-Socialist Business ElitesChapter 17 Epilogue:Elite Theory versus Marxism: The Twentieth Century’s VerdictChapter 18 IndexChapter 19 About the Editors and Contributors

This is an interesting book that has many fine chapters and contains some interesting ideas.