Ethnic Political Recruitment in the USSR

Recruitment into politics in industrial societies is determined to a large extent by an individual's (or a group's) social status. Usually status is indicated by education, occupational prestige, and income or wealth. The higher one's status, as measured by high ratings on one or more of these scales, the more likely is one to be drawn into a political role.1 In multiethnic societies, ethnicity may also be an indicator of social standing. In such instances, ethnic affiliation will be an additional and either complementary or competing determinant of ability to participate in politics and to share in the exercise of power. In multi-ethnic societies, the politically dominant ethnic group usually controls the system of political recruitment

Demographic economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Occupational prestige · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Prestige · Social science · Social status · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Law · Soviet and Russian History

• Canadian Publications on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe for 1988

  Jack McIntosh•Canadian Slavonic Papers•1989

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