Abstract
Reputational analysis can be a valuable tool to supplement other approaches to the study of political elites. Such an analysis of the influences on Gorbachev in the late 1980s identifies him as very much located within the traditional institutional framework. Very few members of the political counter‐elite appear to have been influential, and the new economic forces and the working class‐both identified in Marxist theory as of particular significance ‐ were of marginal significance. By contrast, the leaders of republics and regions, on the one hand, and the leaders of the democratic movement, on the other, appear to have had the greatest impact on the former leader, with the backing of conservative and capitalist leaders of the West.
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