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.

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

• 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