Anton Steen 
Between Past and Future: Elites, Democracy and the State in Post-Communist Countries [PDF ebook] 
A Comparison of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Published in 1997, this text presents a specific interest in analyzing the role of the elites as a key factor for democratic rule and policy changes. In order to put the elites in perspective the author has also conducted opinion surveys asking some of the same questions among representative samples of the populations in the three countries. Comparing these three rather similar states gives possibilities for singling out conditions for specific national developments in elite structure and policies.