Thomas A Baylis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1040407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas A Baylis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas A |
| FAMILY NAME | Baylis |
| SIGNATURE | BAYLIS T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Embattled executives: Prime ministerial weakness in East Central Europe
In a period in which ‘‘strong’’ and even ‘‘presidential’’ prime ministers have arguably become more the rule than the exception in the major states of Western Europe, most prime ministers in the new democracies of East Central Europe appear to have been relatively weak figures. This article investigates the reasons for that relative weakness in the ten East Central European countries, which together have had 87 prime ministers in the 16 years sin…
The Wende in GDR Research
Laurence McFalls and Lothar Probst, eds., After the GDR: New Perspectives on the Old GDR and the Young Länder. German Monitor No. 54 (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2001)Corey Ross, The East German Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of the GDR (London: Arnold Publishers, 2002
The Communist Past and the Inter-German Present: Two Perspectives
A. James McAdams, Judging the Past in Unified Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)Christiane Olivo, Creating a Democratic Civil Society in Eastern Germany: The Case of the Citizen Movements and Alliance 90 (New York: Palgrave, 2001
The GDR “on the eve”
Nine years after the domino-like collapse of East Central Europe's Communist regimes, the near-unanimity of the conclusion, in retrospect, that the collapse was inevitable stands in stark contrast to the failure of nearly all observers and participants to anticipate it (or at least to say so publicly) at the time. In looking back at the year preceding the collapse, the nagging question that still presents itself is why practically no one saw the …
Elite Change After Communism: Eastern Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia
Presidents versus Prime Ministers: Shaping Executive Authority in Eastern Europe
Open conflict between presidents and prime ministers has become a familiar phenomenon throughout East Central Europe since the fall of communism. While individual personalities and the particular constellations of issues in each country have helped shape individual conflicts, this article seeks to account for them in more fundamental structural terms and to place them in the context of current debates over the relative virtues of presidentialism …
Plus ça change? Transformation and continuity among east European elites
Ostensibly democratic elites drawn largely from the non-communist intelligentsia have taken over the most prominent positions in the “new” political systems of East Central Europe. To what extent do they resemble either their interwar or communist predecessors? The answer is complex, but even prior to the return of post-communists to a share of power in Poland, certain similarities were apparent. The present elites come largely from what one form…
Governing by Committee: Collegial Leadership in Advanced Societies
Zur Menschen- und Grundrechtssituation politischer Gefangener in der DDR
Explaining the GDR's economic strategy
The GDR's fundamental economic strategy since 1971, as reflected in but also modified by its response to the “price shocks” of the 1970s and the ensuing credit squeeze of the early 1980s, has been shaped in important measure by the pressures imposed and the opportunities offered by its complex relationship with the German Federal Republic. The direct and indirect constraints resulting from the GDR's status as junior partner in its alliance with t…
Agitprop as a Vocation: The East German Ideological Elite
The claim, made not so long ago, that ideology in Communist political systems is in decline may not be entirely correct. Examining the social composition and career patterns of ideological specialists in the German Democratic Republic, Professor Baylis finds that these functionaries enjoy relatively high status, and that ideological work, by itself, is no disqualification for advancement to the highest positions in the party
Collegial Leadership in Advanced Industrial Societies: The Relevance of the Swiss Experience
This article takes issue with Max Weber's thesis that the collegial sharing of political authority is an anachronism in the modern world because of its incompatibility with the principle of rational bureaucratic organization. The author distinguishes between various types of collegiality and explores the nature, sources, and effects of collegial leadership. His examination of the case of collegiality in the Swiss Federal Council leads him to conc…
Participation without Conflict: Socialist Democracy in the German Democratic Republic
The Technical Intelligentsia and the East German Elite: Legitimacy and Social Change in Mature Communism
Economic Reform as Ideology: East Germany's New Economic System
In 1963 the ruling party and government of East Germany initiated a set of sweeping economic reforms under the name of the New Economic System (NES). The reforms resembled, with some modifications, the proposals of the Russian economist, Evsei Liberman. Liberman's suggestions had been the stimulus for a now celebrated discussion in the Soviet press in the fall of 1962, but then had apparently been shelved. With the adoption of NES, the East Germa…
Presidents versus Prime Ministers: Shaping Executive Authority in Eastern Europe
Open conflict between presidents and prime ministers has become a familiar phenomenon throughout East Central Europe since the fall of communism. While individual personalities and the particular constellations of issues in each country have helped shape individual conflicts, this article seeks to account for them in more fundamental structural terms and to place them in the context of current debates over the relative virtues of presidentialism …
Embattled executives: Prime ministerial weakness in East Central Europe
In a period in which ‘‘strong’’ and even ‘‘presidential’’ prime ministers have arguably become more the rule than the exception in the major states of Western Europe, most prime ministers in the new democracies of East Central Europe appear to have been relatively weak figures. This article investigates the reasons for that relative weakness in the ten East Central European countries, which together have had 87 prime ministers in the 16 years sin…
Plus ça change? Transformation and continuity among east European elites
Ostensibly democratic elites drawn largely from the non-communist intelligentsia have taken over the most prominent positions in the “new” political systems of East Central Europe. To what extent do they resemble either their interwar or communist predecessors? The answer is complex, but even prior to the return of post-communists to a share of power in Poland, certain similarities were apparent. The present elites come largely from what one form…
Elite Change After Communism: Eastern Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia
Economic Reform as Ideology: East Germany's New Economic System
In 1963 the ruling party and government of East Germany initiated a set of sweeping economic reforms under the name of the New Economic System (NES). The reforms resembled, with some modifications, the proposals of the Russian economist, Evsei Liberman. Liberman's suggestions had been the stimulus for a now celebrated discussion in the Soviet press in the fall of 1962, but then had apparently been shelved. With the adoption of NES, the East Germa…
Explaining the GDR's economic strategy
The GDR's fundamental economic strategy since 1971, as reflected in but also modified by its response to the “price shocks” of the 1970s and the ensuing credit squeeze of the early 1980s, has been shaped in important measure by the pressures imposed and the opportunities offered by its complex relationship with the German Federal Republic. The direct and indirect constraints resulting from the GDR's status as junior partner in its alliance with t…
Collegial Leadership in Advanced Industrial Societies: The Relevance of the Swiss Experience
This article takes issue with Max Weber's thesis that the collegial sharing of political authority is an anachronism in the modern world because of its incompatibility with the principle of rational bureaucratic organization. The author distinguishes between various types of collegiality and explores the nature, sources, and effects of collegial leadership. His examination of the case of collegiality in the Swiss Federal Council leads him to conc…
Economic Reform as Ideology: East Germany's New Economic System
In 1963 the ruling party and government of East Germany initiated a set of sweeping economic reforms under the name of the New Economic System (NES). The reforms resembled, with some modifications, the proposals of the Russian economist, Evsei Liberman. Liberman's suggestions had been the stimulus for a now celebrated discussion in the Soviet press in the fall of 1962, but then had apparently been shelved. With the adoption of NES, the East Germa…
The Technical Intelligentsia and the East German Elite: Legitimacy and Social Change in Mature Communism
Participation without Conflict: Socialist Democracy in the German Democratic Republic
Collegial Leadership in Advanced Industrial Societies: The Relevance of the Swiss Experience
This article takes issue with Max Weber's thesis that the collegial sharing of political authority is an anachronism in the modern world because of its incompatibility with the principle of rational bureaucratic organization. The author distinguishes between various types of collegiality and explores the nature, sources, and effects of collegial leadership. His examination of the case of collegiality in the Swiss Federal Council leads him to conc…
Agitprop as a Vocation: The East German Ideological Elite
The claim, made not so long ago, that ideology in Communist political systems is in decline may not be entirely correct. Examining the social composition and career patterns of ideological specialists in the German Democratic Republic, Professor Baylis finds that these functionaries enjoy relatively high status, and that ideological work, by itself, is no disqualification for advancement to the highest positions in the party
Explaining the GDR's economic strategy
The GDR's fundamental economic strategy since 1971, as reflected in but also modified by its response to the “price shocks” of the 1970s and the ensuing credit squeeze of the early 1980s, has been shaped in important measure by the pressures imposed and the opportunities offered by its complex relationship with the German Federal Republic. The direct and indirect constraints resulting from the GDR's status as junior partner in its alliance with t…
Zur Menschen- und Grundrechtssituation politischer Gefangener in der DDR
Governing by Committee: Collegial Leadership in Advanced Societies
Plus ça change? Transformation and continuity among east European elites
Ostensibly democratic elites drawn largely from the non-communist intelligentsia have taken over the most prominent positions in the “new” political systems of East Central Europe. To what extent do they resemble either their interwar or communist predecessors? The answer is complex, but even prior to the return of post-communists to a share of power in Poland, certain similarities were apparent. The present elites come largely from what one form…
Presidents versus Prime Ministers: Shaping Executive Authority in Eastern Europe
Open conflict between presidents and prime ministers has become a familiar phenomenon throughout East Central Europe since the fall of communism. While individual personalities and the particular constellations of issues in each country have helped shape individual conflicts, this article seeks to account for them in more fundamental structural terms and to place them in the context of current debates over the relative virtues of presidentialism …
Elite Change After Communism: Eastern Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia
The GDR “on the eve”
Nine years after the domino-like collapse of East Central Europe's Communist regimes, the near-unanimity of the conclusion, in retrospect, that the collapse was inevitable stands in stark contrast to the failure of nearly all observers and participants to anticipate it (or at least to say so publicly) at the time. In looking back at the year preceding the collapse, the nagging question that still presents itself is why practically no one saw the …
The Communist Past and the Inter-German Present: Two Perspectives
A. James McAdams, Judging the Past in Unified Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)Christiane Olivo, Creating a Democratic Civil Society in Eastern Germany: The Case of the Citizen Movements and Alliance 90 (New York: Palgrave, 2001
The Wende in GDR Research
Laurence McFalls and Lothar Probst, eds., After the GDR: New Perspectives on the Old GDR and the Young Länder. German Monitor No. 54 (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2001)Corey Ross, The East German Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of the GDR (London: Arnold Publishers, 2002
Embattled executives: Prime ministerial weakness in East Central Europe
In a period in which ‘‘strong’’ and even ‘‘presidential’’ prime ministers have arguably become more the rule than the exception in the major states of Western Europe, most prime ministers in the new democracies of East Central Europe appear to have been relatively weak figures. This article investigates the reasons for that relative weakness in the ten East Central European countries, which together have had 87 prime ministers in the 16 years sin…
Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · European history and politics (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Communism (6 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (6 works) · German (6 works)