Elites and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe (1848-1918)

The volume deals with the evolution and metamorphoses of the political elite in the Habsburg lands and the neighbouring countries during the long 19 century. It comprises fourteen studies, compiled by both renowned scholars in the field and young researchers from Central and Eastern Europe. The research targets mainly parliamentary elites, with occasional glimpses on political clubs and economic elites. The main subjects of interest are changes in the social-professional composition of the representative assemblies and inner power plays and generation shifts. The collection of studies also focuses on the growing pressure brought by emerging nationalisms as well as electoral corruption and political patronage.

Judit Pál is Associate Professor at the Faculty of History at Bab-s-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (Romania). Her area of interest is the social and political history of modern Transylvania. Vlad Popovici is Assistant Researcher at the same faculty. His area of interest is the history of Romanian political elites in 19th-century Transylvania.

Contents: Peter Urbanitsch: Intellectual Elites and the Franchise for Representative Bodies on Local, Regional and State Levels in Cisleithania 1848-1914 - Franz Adlgasser: Lawyers in the Austrian Parliament, 1848-1918. A Prosopographic Case Study - Luboš Velek: The Czech Club in Prague: the Political Association as a Means to Political Mobilisation and the Legitimisation and Cultivation of Civil Elites in the 1870s - Ji-í Šouša/Ji-í Štaif: The Social Question as a Focus of Interest for Political and Entrepreneurial Elites: Lands of the Bohemian Crown 1880-1914 - Ji-í Malí-: The Moravian Diet and Political Elites in Moravia 1848-1918 - Lukáš Fasora: Deutschliberal and Deutschnational. Continuity and Discontinuity in Local Politics and the Diet of Moravia 1880-1914 - Harald Binder: Galiciäs Parliamentary Elites in the Transition to Mass Politics - Mihai--tefan Ceau-u: Representation of the Romanian Political Elite in the Bukovina Diet (1861-1914) - József Pap: Problems in the Career Analysis of Hungarian Representatives in the Age of Dualism - András Cieger: Interests and Strategies. An Investigation of the Political Elite of the Sub-Carpathian Region in the Age of Dualism (1867-1918) - Alexandru Onojescu/Ovidiu Iudean/Vlad Popovici: Parliamentary Representation in Eastern Hungary (1861-1918). Preliminary Results of a Prosopographic Inquiry - Judit Pál: Representation of the Transylvanian Towns in the Hungarian Parliament and Town MPs after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1866-1875) - Nicolae Boc-an: The Romanian Political Elite in Transylvania between Militancy and Professionalisation - Silvia Marton: Becoming Political Professionals. Members of Parliament in Romania (1866-1914).