Topics discussed include: change and continuity of political and bureaucratic elites in Russia; elite fragmentation and conflict in Poland; national counter-elites in Hungary; ethnocentrism and strife among political elites in former Yugoslavia; bureaucratic integration and elite transfer in former GDR; politics and economics of privatization in former GDR; elite recruitment and replacement in a comparative perspective Contributors to the volume are: Hans-Ulrich Derlien (University of Bamberg, Germany), George J. Szablowski (York University, Canada), Hellmut Wollmann (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany), Rudolf Andorka (Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Hungary), Dimitar Mircev ("Cyril and Methodius" University of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia), Klaus Konig (Speyer University of Administrative Science, Germany), Ulrich Blum adn Jan Siegmund (Technical University of Dresden, Germany), Klaus von Beyme (University of Heidelberg, Germany), Graham K Wilson (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA), Harbey B Feigenbaum and Jeffrey R Henig (The George Washington University, USA).
