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

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 - Lubos 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 - Jirí Sousa/Jirí Staif: The Social Question as a Focus of Interest for Political and Entrepreneurial Elites: Lands of the Bohemian Crown 1880-1914 - Jirí Malír: The Moravian Diet and Political Elites in Moravia 1848-1918 - Lukás Fasora: Deutschliberal and Deutschnational. Continuity and Discontinuity in Local Politics and the Diet of Moravia 1880-1914 - Harald Binder: Galicia's Parliamentary Elites in the Transition to Mass Politics - Mihai-Stefan Ceausu: 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 Bocsan: The Romanian Political Elite in Transylvania between Militancy and Professionalisation - Silvia Marton: Becoming Political Professionals. Members of Parliament in Romania (1866-1914).

Judit Pál is Associate Professor at the Faculty of History at Babes-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.