Szelényi Iván

Selected Publications

Authored books

Patterns of Exclusion (with Janos Ladanyi): Columbia University Press, 2006

Theories of the New Class – Intellectuals and Power (with Larry King) Minnesota University Press, 2004

Making Capitalism without Capitalists (With Gil Eyal and Eleanor Townsley. London: VERSO, 1998.

Socialist Entrepreneurs. Embourgeoisement in Rural Hungary. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press and Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988 (With Robert Manchin, Pál Juhász, Bálint Magyar and Bill Martin)

Urban Inequalities under State Socialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power. (With G. Konrad) New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1979.

Articles

“The New Capitalism of Eastern Europe: Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Post-communism” (with Larry King) in Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg (eds): Handbook of Economic Sociology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005

On Irony – an Invitation to Neo-classical Sociology” (with Gil Eyal and Eleanor Townsley), In English in Thesis Eleven, 2003, May, No. 73: 5-41 “The Utopia of Post-Socialist Theory and the Ironic View of History of Neo-classical Sociology.” American Journal of Sociology, 2001, Volume 196, No. 4: 1121-1128

“The market transition debate: toward a synthesis?” (With Eric Kostello), American Journal of Sociology, January 1996, Vol.101, No.4, January, pp.1082-1096

"Interests and symbols in post-communist political culture: the case of Hungary" (With Szonja Szelenyi and Winifried R. Poster), American Sociological Review, 1996, Vol.61, No.3, June, pp.466-477

"The socialist economic system" (With Kathy Beckett and Larry King), in Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg (eds): Handbook of Economic Sociology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994

"Eastern Europe in an epoch of crisis - towards a socialist mixed economy?" In Victor Nee and David Stark (eds): Remaking the Economic Institutions of Socialism, Stanford University Press, 1989, pp. 208-232

"The intelligentsia in the class structure of state socialist societies", in M. Burawoy and T. Skocpol (eds): Marxist Inquiries Studies of Labor, Class and States. American Journal of Sociology, Vol, 88. Supplement 1982, pp. 287-326

"Social inequalities in state socialist redistributive economies dilemma for social policy in contemporary socialist societies of Eastern Europe", in International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 1978, No.1 2, pp. 63-87.

"Primary group structures and their functions kin, neighbors and friends." (With E. Litwak), in American Sociological Review, August 1969.