Dr Michael Rochlitz – new co-authored article on political elites in Central and Eastern Europe, 1990-2020

‘This research note introduces a new dataset covering officeholders for 3,277 position/years in six countries (the Czech Republic, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine) for seven reference years from 1990 to 2020. It points to results about broad development trends of political elites concerning sociodemographic characteristics and elite continuity’

RESC Fellow Dr Michael Rochlitz contributes to this article in Communist and Post-Communist Studies. Entitled ‘Assessing Socialist Past and Sociodemographic Present: The Composition of Political Elites in Central and Eastern Europe from 1990 to 2020’, the article can be accessed here

Meanwhile the dataset has been published separately, and can be found here