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Share of engineers, percent. Source: Authors' dataset.

Share of engineers, percent. Source: Authors' dataset.

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FIGURE 1. Share of engineers, percent. Source: Authors' dataset.
FIGURE 2. Share of legal professions, percent. Source: Authors' dataset.
FIGURE 3. Share of women, percent. Source: Authors' dataset.
FIGURE 4. Active party membership during socialist regime, percent....
+1 FIGURE 5. Visible affiliation with opposition during socialist regime,...
Assessing Socialist Past and Sociodemographic Present: The Composition of Political Elites in Central and Eastern Europe from 1990 to 2020
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Since the mid-2000s, there has been no study of characteristics of political elites at large in East Central European countries. Accordingly, an assessment of long-term trends is not possible beyond narrow case studies of elite sub-segments. This research note introduces a new dataset covering officeholders for 3,277 position/years in six countries...
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... the East German regions, the share of these four professions remained rather stable in the range from 45% to 53% throughout the period under study. The dominant role of engineers, especially in Russia and Ukraine, can be seen as a legacy of the technocratic policies of the planned economy (see Figure 1). ...