MA (Warsaw), PhD (ANU), is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tasmania, Australia, Visiting Professor at Collegium Civitas, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Affiliate of the Stanford Centre on Poverty and Inequality. He is the (co-) editor and (co-)author of 10 books and over 120 scholarly articles on elites, democratization, multiculturalism, post-communism, social movements, and social inequality.