WILLIAM A. CLARK Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USAGRAEME GILL University of Sydney, AustraliaJOHN HIGLEY University of Texas, Austin, USALESLIE HOLMES University of Melbourne, AustraliaOLGA KRYSHTANOVSKAYA Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, MoscowJUDITH KULLBERG Ohio State University, Columbus, USAMARTHA MERRITT Notre Dame University, Indiana, USAJAN PAKULSKI University of TasmaniaSTEPHEN WHITE University of Glasgow, ScotlandJOHN P. WILLERTON University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

• General Editor's Introduction List of Contributors Introduction; Graeme Gill If Checks Won't Balance: Parliamentary Review of Ministerial Appointments; Martha Merritt Presidential Prefects in the Russian Provinces: Yeltsin's Regional Cadres Policy; William A. Clark Post-Soviet Clientelist Norms at the Russian Federal Level; John P. Willerton From Power to Property: The Nomenklatura in Post-Communist Russia; Olga Kryshtanovskaya and Stephen White Elites, institutions and Democratisation in Russia and Eastern Europe; Judith Kullberg, John Higley and Jan Pakulski Elites and the Russian Transition; Graeme Gill Russia as a Post-Communist Country; Leslie Holmes Index

WILLIAM A. CLARK Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USAGRAEME GILL University of Sydney, AustraliaJOHN HIGLEY University of Texas, Austin, USALESLIE HOLMES University of Melbourne, AustraliaOLGA KRYSHTANOVSKAYA Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, MoscowJUDITH KULLBERG Ohio State University, Columbus, USAMARTHA MERRITT Notre Dame University, Indiana, USAJAN PAKULSKI University of TasmaniaSTEPHEN WHITE University of Glasgow, ScotlandJOHN P. WILLERTON University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

• General Editor's Introduction List of Contributors Introduction; Graeme Gill If Checks Won't Balance: Parliamentary Review of Ministerial Appointments; Martha Merritt Presidential Prefects in the Russian Provinces: Yeltsin's Regional Cadres Policy; William A. Clark Post-Soviet Clientelist Norms at the Russian Federal Level; John P. Willerton From Power to Property: The Nomenklatura in Post-Communist Russia; Olga Kryshtanovskaya and Stephen White Elites, institutions and Democratisation in Russia and Eastern Europe; Judith Kullberg, John Higley and Jan Pakulski Elites and the Russian Transition; Graeme Gill Russia as a Post-Communist Country; Leslie Holmes Index

WILLIAM A. CLARK Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USAGRAEME GILL University of Sydney, AustraliaJOHN HIGLEY University of Texas, Austin, USALESLIE HOLMES University of Melbourne, AustraliaOLGA KRYSHTANOVSKAYA Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, MoscowJUDITH KULLBERG Ohio State University, Columbus, USAMARTHA MERRITT Notre Dame University, Indiana, USAJAN PAKULSKI University of TasmaniaSTEPHEN WHITE University of Glasgow, ScotlandJOHN P. WILLERTON University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

• General Editor's Introduction List of Contributors Introduction; Graeme Gill If Checks Won't Balance: Parliamentary Review of Ministerial Appointments; Martha Merritt Presidential Prefects in the Russian Provinces: Yeltsin's Regional Cadres Policy; William A. Clark Post-Soviet Clientelist Norms at the Russian Federal Level; John P. Willerton From Power to Property: The Nomenklatura in Post-Communist Russia; Olga Kryshtanovskaya and Stephen White Elites, institutions and Democratisation in Russia and Eastern Europe; Judith Kullberg, John Higley and Jan Pakulski Elites and the Russian Transition; Graeme Gill Russia as a Post-Communist Country; Leslie Holmes Index