The Czech Economic Elite after Fifteen Years of Post-Socialist Transformation
Abstract: The East-Central European post-socialist transformations have now reached a new stage, with the need to address the problems of further modernisation & maintenance in the context of the EU. The role of elites in this process is as intermediators between the influence of the European context & the needs & interests of differentiated internal social structures. Their attitudes & behaviour exhibit a high degree of internal fragmentation & division corresponding to various strategical orientations favouring various societal models. The post-socialist Czech economic elite was initially reproduced out of former state socialist managers & their cadre reserves. After the first phase of economic developments, inspired by neo-liberal radical privatisation & elements of 'shock therapy', & once the new, more European phase ushered in many new factors, there was a distinct decline in the number of 'old-new' economic elite on the scene. In the empirical part of the article the results of several
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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In: Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review ; 42 (2006) 3 ; 537-556
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Politik
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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2006
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Tucek, Milan
Machonin, Pavel
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-56547
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Tucek, Milan
- Machonin, Pavel
Time of origin
- 2006