His book The Death Of Class (co-written with Professor Malcolm Waters) has been used as an undergraduate textbook.
His most recent publication, a chapter titled The Development Of Elite Theory in the Palgrave Handbook Of Elites is targeted at policy-makers and members of parliament.
Awards and recognition
He was awarded the Golden of Cross of Merit from the Polish Republic (1991) for his activism for Polish-Australian relations, especially with respect to his work for the POLCUL Foundation for which he has served as director since 1980. He was President of the Australian Institute of Polish Affairs (AIPA) 2001–05, and 2009–13, and currently holds a position of Vice-President.
Selected publications
Social Movements: The Politics of Moral Protest, Melbourne Longman Cheshire, 1991.
Postmodernization: Change in Advanced Society (with S. Crook and M. Waters) London: Sage, 1992 Chinese translation 1994.
The Death of Class (with M. Waters) London Sage, 1996.
Postcommunist Elites and Democracy in Eastern Europe (eds with J. Higley and W. Wesolowski) London: Macmillan, 1998.
Globalizing Inequalities Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2004.
Toward Leader Democracy (with A. Korosenyi) New York and London: Anthem Press, 2012 (paperback edition 2014).
Leadership Failures in Australian Politics (with B. Tranter), Sydney and NY: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2015.
The Visegrad Countries in Crisis (ed.), Warsaw: Collegium Civitas, 2016 (full text available).
Palgrave Handbook of Elites (section editor and author in H. Best and J. Higley edition). London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2018.
References
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↑Higley, John; Pakulski, Jan; Wesołowski, Włodzimierz (1998). Postcommunist elites and democracy in Eastern Europe. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN0-312-21179-1. OCLC37588570.
↑Pakulski, Jan (2005). Globalising Inequalities: New Patterns of Social Privilege and Disadvantage. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN978-1-74115-838-0. OCLC1127169668.
↑Pakulski, Jan; Tranter, Bruce (11 December 2015). The decline of political leadership in Australia?: changing recruitment and careers of federal politicians (Firsted.). New York. ISBN978-1-137-51806-4. OCLC945754351.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
↑Conti, Nicolò; Göncz, Borbála; Real-Dato, José (18 June 2018). National political elites, European integration and the Eurozone crisis. Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN978-1-351-06480-4. OCLC1041707204.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)