Opening Talk:

The Roles of Masses and Elites in Transformation Processes:
Current State of Research": Wolfgang MERKEL (University of Heidelberg)

Mass Pressures, Elite Responses: Roots of Democratization

• The Case of Poland: Irena PANKOW (Director, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) Discussant: Andrzej KORBONSKI (UCLA) 
• The Case of the GDR: Detlef POLLACK (Viadrina University, Frankfurt/Oder) 
• South Africa: Political Engagement, Collective Action, and Government Reform, 1994-2000 Tom LODGE (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
• Changing Elite-Mass Relations in Democratizing Korea: Myungsoon SHIN (Yonsei University, Seoul); Aurel CROISSANT (University of Heidelberg) 

• Solidarnosc and Poland’s Party System": Krzysztof JASIEWICZ (Washington & Lee University) Discussant: Piotr WINCZOREK (University of Warsaw) 
• Structural Deficits of the Czech Party System": Jana RESCHOVA (University of Economics, Prague) 

• The Case of Hungary: Jozsef BAYER (Director, Institute of Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest) 
• The Case of Romania: Anneli Ute GABANYI (Foundation Science and Politics, Berlin) 

• Survey Studies (I): Richard ROSE (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) 
• Survey Studies (II): Jane L. CURRY (Santa Clara University) 

• Elite Pluralism and Social Movements": Rainer EISFELD (University of Osnabrück) 
• Corporatism Packed in Pluralist Ideology: the Case of Slovenia": Igor LUKSIC (University of Ljubljana) 
• Elite and Masses, Linkage and Disconnect During the Period of System Transformation – Case of India: Surinder K. Shuklar