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A Study on Elite and Democracy in the Era of Transformation: The Case of Poland and Hungary

This article aims at researching the relation between elite and democracy at the viewpoint of transformation in Eastern Europe at the case of Poland and Hungary. After the breakdown of the communist regime in Eastern Europe the era of transformation is opened. The era of transformation correlate to the question of the division of elite at the one hand and the consolidation of democracy at the other hand. This subject can be again subdivided into the problem of the circulation, recruit, reproduction of the elite and conflict of the old and new elite. In other to say, the discussion about circulation or reproduction of elite can be replaced wether old elite can sustain their power position at the new era of transformation or new elite occupy the power position of the old elite. We can now summarize the above-mentioned study on elite. In 1989-1990 took place the system-change in Eastern Europe. The system-change caused the regime-change. Regime-change means at the same time the change of elite. A important point as regard to the system-change which is resulted in the elite-change is that the many of new elite are recruited from the old elite, i.e. “nomenclature”. Owing to this point we are interested at the new configuration of elite at the era of transformation. In this context we can ask some questions? How degree happened the change of elite? Or wether the continuity of the old elite can make danger of the new era of democracy. In order to answer these questions, I have used the empirical data which is performed in 1993. After analyzing this date we can conclude that the old elite may not be dangerous to the development of democracy and capitalism at the new era of transformation. Another to say, democracy and capitalism is not till now fully developed. This means that democracy in Eastern Europe is nowadays half done.