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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1. Introduction -- 1. Theoretical and Methodological Problems of Elite Background Analysis -- Part 2. Four-Nation Comparisons -- 2. Revolution and Elite Displacement: Social and Political Transformations -- 3. Political Systems under Stress: Interwar Elite Developments -- 4. Elite Recruitment under Normalcy Conditions -- Part 3. Single-Nation Studies -- 5. Tenure in the U.S. House: Longitudinal Analysis of Four Alternative Explanations -- 6. Marxist and Liberal Democratic Models of Elite Recruitment: German Parliamentary Deputies in Kaiserreich, Weimar, Third Reich, and Bonn -- 7. Elite Recruitment and the End of Ideology: Class Transformations of Bundestag Deputies -- 8. Post-Cárdenas Mexico: Evolution of a Filtered Class Recruitment System -- 9. A Generational Interpretation of the Soviet Elite: 1 -- 10. A Generational Interpretation of the Soviet Elite: 2 -- Part 4. Closing Thoughts -- 11. Ideology and the Relevance of Elite Representativeness -- Bibliography -- Index

Providing a wide ranging overview of the processes of democratisation in post-communist Europe, this text places the transitions in these states within a broad European and global context.