| Acknowledgements |
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7
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| Janina Frentzel-Zagórska |
Introduction |
9
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| Włodzimierz Wesołowski |
Theoretical Aspects of Elite
Research in Postcommunist Societies |
17
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| John Higley and Jan Pakulski |
Elite Theory and Research in
Postcommunist Societies |
37
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| Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska |
Elites and Mass Media in East-Central
Europe |
51
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| Radosław Markowski |
Party System Institutionalisation
and Democratic Consolidation: on the Idiosyncrasies of the Polish Case |
65
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| Marek Rybář |
Assessing the Elite Convergence
Hypothesis a Year After the 1998 Elections in Slovakia |
91
|
| Aili Aarelaid-Tart |
Political Generations in Estonia:
A historical Background to the Formation of the Contemporary Political
Scene |
105
|
| Anton Steen |
What Kind of Light in the End
of the Tunnel? Democratic Norms, Market Orientations and Political Socialisation.
A Comparison of Elites in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia |
125
|
| Gabriella Ilonszki |
The Second Generation Political
Elite in Hungary: Partial Consolidation |
159
|
| Hajdeja Iglič and Andrej Rus |
Elite Networks in the Transition:
the Dynamics of Change in Personal Networks of Slovenian Elites |
175
|
| Jacek Wasilewski |
Polish Post-Transitional Elite |
197
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| Janina Frentzel-Zagórska |
Structure of the Polish Political
Scene as Seen |
217
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| Ewa Nalewajko |
The State and the Society: the
Elites on Group Pressures |
233
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| Irena Pańków |
Trade Unions and Politics |
249
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| Notes on the Contributors |
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271
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