19. June 2012, Alter: 1 Years

New: HSR Vol. 37 (2012) 2 Special Issue “Political and Functional Elites in Post-Socialist Transformation”

HSR Vol. 37 (2012) 2, Special Issue:

Heinrich Best, Ronald Gebauer & Axel Salheiser (Eds.): Political and Functional Elites in Post-Socialist Transformation: Central and East Europe since 1989/90

Further information about HSR Vol. 37.2

After the breakdown of Communist regimes in the East at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s unparalleled societal transitory processes have evolved and reshaped the political world map. After two decades, Central and East European societies still have to master difficulties that have been inherited from Socialism or face conditions that are specifically post-Socialist legacies.

Moreover, throughout the first decade of the 21st century, international and national crises have drastically challenged the functioning and legitimacy of market economy, representative democracies, and welfare states. How have representative and functional elites in Central and East Europe affected and been affected by this 'double' transformation? Have they found and embraced strategies of change or have they sought ways of persistence? And how do elites react to newly arising social problems? The emergence, the success or failure, and the survival or replacement of elites is closely bound to these questions.

Accordingly, this HSR special issue focuses on elite continuity and elite discontinuity. / Historical Social Research 37.2 also contains a Mixed Issue with articles for example on cliometrics and statistical matching.

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