Between Past and Future: Elites, Democracy and the State in Post-Communist Countries: A Comparison of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

ISBN-13: 9780367197018 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 390 str.

Anton Steen

Opis

Published in  1997, this text presents a specific interest in analyzing the role of the elites as a key factor for democratic rule and policy changes. Comparing these three states gives possibilities for singling out conditions for specific national developments in elite structure and policies.

Spis treści

Contents.  Tables.  Figures.  Preface.  1. From totalitarianism to democracy: The role of the elites.  2. Data and Methods.  Part One: Continuity and change.  3. Recirculation or renewal of elites?  4. The social biography of the new elites.  5. Elite personality and the democratic mind.  6. The problem of the past: Punish or forget?  Part Two: Elite networks.  7. Contacts between institutions.  8. Core elite persons.  9. Kinship relations.  Conclusions to Part Two.  10. The elites and the political parties.  Part Three: Elite and mass cleavages.  11. Trust between elites.  12. Opening the ‘steam boiler’: Social and ethnic cleavages.  Conclusions to Part Three: Social cleavages and elite integration.  Part Four: The elites and the people: The problem of legitimacy.  13. Political support.  14. The problem of representation.  Conclusions to Part Four.  Part Five: Values and policy priorities.  15. Basic Values: Equality and state interference.  16. Ideological polarization or unification?  17. Policy priorities and policy instruments.  Conclusions to Part Five.  18. Policy outcomes: Is the state withering away.  19. The elite network state.  Appendix Tables.  References.

O autorze

Anton Steen