Who won the contest for a new property class? Structural transformation of elites in the Visegrád Four region

Jan Drahokoupil

doi:10.5771/0949-6181-2008-4-360

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- I–IV Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis I–IV
- 280–281 Editorial Katharina Bluhm, Vera Trappmann Katharina Bluhm, Vera Trappmann 280–281
- 282–377 Articles 282–377
  - 282–290 Economic Elites in enlarged Europe Katharina Bluhm, Vera Trappmann Katharina Bluhm, Vera Trappmann 282–290
  - 291–304 Multipositional and transnational members of the Hungarian economic elite at the end of the 1990s: Their social characteristics and income chances György Lengyel György Lengyel 291–304
  - 305–326 East German economic elites and their companies two decades after the transformation (“Wende”): Still following the patterns of the 1990s Bernd Martens Bernd Martens 305–326
  - 327–359 The changing roles of the post- transitional economic elite in Poland Krzysztof Jasiecki Krzysztof Jasiecki 327–359
  - 360–377 Who won the contest for a new property class? Structural transformation of elites in the Visegrád Four region Jan Drahokoupil Jan Drahokoupil 360–377
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- 393–394 Contents of JEEMS Vol 13, 2008 393–394
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JEEMS Journal of East European Management Studies , Seite 360 - 377

Who won the contest for a new property class? Structural transformation of elites in the Visegrád Four region

Autoren

Jan Drahokoupil

DOI
- doi.org/10.5771/0949-6181-2008-4-360
- ISSN print: 0949-6181
- ISSN online: 0949-6181
- Nomos, Baden-Baden Nomos, Baden-Baden
Zusammenfassung

Die Studie untersucht den Wandel der Elite in den Visegrád-Staaten (namentlich die Tschechische Republik, Ungarn, Polen und die Slowakei). Sie zeigt, wie in den späten 1990er Jahren das Entstehen der auslandsgeführten Wirtschaftszweige politisch mit dem Entstehen einer lokalen Elite verflochten war, die sich in den Dienst des ausländischen Kapitals gestellt hat. Diese Elite - ein sog. "Comprador Dienstleistungssektor" - ist zu einer dominanten einflussreichen Teilelite herangewachsen.

Abstract

This paper analyses the transformation of elites in the Visegrád Four countries (namely the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). Drawing on a process-tracing analysis, it argues that the emergence of foreign-led economies in the late 1990s was intertwined with political processes in which domestic forces linked to foreign capital were transformed into major elite segments with considerable influence. This elite segment, the comprador service sector, proved to be politically active within the states in Central and Eastern Europe and organized various mechanisms of representation within the state and beyond.
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