Second, the extension of the
nomenklatura over the national economy reduces ex ante the capacity of enterprises to perform, especially given the effect of negative selection to managerial posts on enterprise performance (assuming that managers could choose among various production options).
The workings of the Lithuanian
nomenklatura, and in particular its use of personal relations, provide an opportunity to look more thoroughly into all-union politics from the local perspective.
In the wider world, a major part of the problem has been that the globalist
nomenklatura is indelibly associated with the massive distortions of wealth apparent over the past twenty years or so.
As a ruling class, the party
nomenklatura did not totally control the means of production in an ownership sense.
The fear and loathing Mr Corbyn has provoked in the top echelons of the Labour Party has been a constant source of mirth as the
nomenklatura of the ever rightwards drifting "Labour" Party scuttle around wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth.
Bulgaria and Romania went through the motions of renouncing communism after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but the reforms were cosmetic, and most of the party
nomenklatura managed to cling on.
Both authors argue that in the aftermath of the collapse of communist institutional structure, members of the
nomenklatura were able to use their political influence to accumulate wealth.
Meanwhile, during the same decade, the Communist
nomenklatura Looking to its own future de facto began to privatize the economy in its own interest.