Download or read book Between Past and Future: Elites, Democracy and the State in Post-Communist Countries written by Anton Steen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1997, this text presents a specific interest in analyzing the role of the elites as a key factor for democratic rule and policy changes. In order to put the elites in perspective the author has also conducted opinion surveys asking some of the same questions among representative samples of the populations in the three countries. Comparing these three rather similar states gives possibilities for singling out conditions for specific national developments in elite structure and policies.