One mark of a revolution is the comprehensiveness with which old élites are replaced by
new ones in the most influential political, economic, and cultural positions of the society in …

Traditionally, Germany has had a segmented elite with little interchange between economic,
cultural, political and military elites. Although borderlines have become somewhat more …

To explain the underrepresentation of eastern Germans among elites in all sectors of
German society, this chapter examines the mechanisms of elite recruitment in Germany. In …

Die Südosteuropa-Jahrbücher werden von der in München ansässigen Südosteuropa-
Gesellschaft, der wichtigsten Wissenschaftsorganisation der Südosteuropa-Forschung im …

Studies of national elites are concerned with the most powerful persons in a society, ie
persons with considerable influence on collective decisions of central importance. This …

The existence of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was confirmed by the declaration
of its sovereignty and its membership in the Pact of Warsaw in 1954/55. After that, the new …

For German political scientists, research on the history of their discipline neither is nor has
been a very prominent subject1. The common belief holds that political science was first …

Germany: Twenty-five years after fall of Berlin Wall, socialists to head government in eastern
state Page 1 INTERNATIONAL LIAm FLENAdy BRussELs Images of rIotIng protesters and …

Beginning in the 1960s and gathering momentum ever since, interest in the socio-economic
interpretation of German modernization has grown among historians and social scientists …