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Democratic Elitism and the Autonomy of Elites
International Political Science Review, 1996Commentators have been divided about the degree to which democracy can be reconciled with the existence of elites. Some have seen them as a threat to democracy; others, the “democratic elitists,” have perceived their autonomy as a necessary ingredient of a democratic polity.
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Technical Elites and Social Elites
Sociology of Education, 1963The nature of modern scientifl knowledge is antithetical to the "sacred" character of knowledge exclusively possessed by traditional social elites. Though technicians may become a dominant group, this occurs only if they add to their technical character values whioh are transcendental.
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1993
According to Putnam,1 the analytical model of classical elite theorists, such as Mosca, Pareto and Robert Michels, consists of five elements: (1) Political power — like other social goods — is distributed unequally. (2) People fall into only two groups: those who have ‘significant’ political power and those who have none. (3)
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According to Putnam,1 the analytical model of classical elite theorists, such as Mosca, Pareto and Robert Michels, consists of five elements: (1) Political power — like other social goods — is distributed unequally. (2) People fall into only two groups: those who have ‘significant’ political power and those who have none. (3)
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Convincing elites, controlling elites
2011Within the legal mobilization framework, sociolegal scholars identify elite support as a key indirect benefit of litigation. Court-centered strategies generate support from influential state and private actors, and this support helps a movement to achieve its goals.
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2009
Abstract This article examines the various forms that political elite theory took, from the end of the nineteenth century to the 1960s and 1970s. The career patterns, forms of recruitment, and duration and turnover among the political elite are studied. The article also discusses the role of the political elite.
BLONDEL, Jean, MÜLLER-ROMMEL, Ferdinand
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Abstract This article examines the various forms that political elite theory took, from the end of the nineteenth century to the 1960s and 1970s. The career patterns, forms of recruitment, and duration and turnover among the political elite are studied. The article also discusses the role of the political elite.
BLONDEL, Jean, MÜLLER-ROMMEL, Ferdinand
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2021
This chapter carries out and reviews elite interviews conducted in Taipei during the fall of 2015 and the summer of 2016. It notes that these meetings are introduced in summary form with regard to time, place and representativeness. With the material from those dialogues, the chapter facilitates the reassessment of the conventional wisdom identified in
Scott Sigmund Gartner +3 more
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This chapter carries out and reviews elite interviews conducted in Taipei during the fall of 2015 and the summer of 2016. It notes that these meetings are introduced in summary form with regard to time, place and representativeness. With the material from those dialogues, the chapter facilitates the reassessment of the conventional wisdom identified in
Scott Sigmund Gartner +3 more
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2010
Without her individual talent, Tia Hellebaut would never have developed her impressive high jumping career, nor would Pieter van Den Hoogenband his swimming career or innumerable elite athletes their career in a range of other sports. But neither would they have done so without the network of sports clubs where they developed as athletes; without the ...
de Bosscher, Veerle, van Bottenburg, M.
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Without her individual talent, Tia Hellebaut would never have developed her impressive high jumping career, nor would Pieter van Den Hoogenband his swimming career or innumerable elite athletes their career in a range of other sports. But neither would they have done so without the network of sports clubs where they developed as athletes; without the ...
de Bosscher, Veerle, van Bottenburg, M.
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2005
Abstract The truth about the nature and the power of the elite is not some secret which men of affairs know but will not tell. Such men hold quite various theories about their own roles in the sequence of event and decision. Often they are uncertain about their roles, and even more often they allow their fears and their hopes to affect ...
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Abstract The truth about the nature and the power of the elite is not some secret which men of affairs know but will not tell. Such men hold quite various theories about their own roles in the sequence of event and decision. Often they are uncertain about their roles, and even more often they allow their fears and their hopes to affect ...
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Elite, sub-elite, counter-elite
Social Science Information, 1983Monique Dagnaud, Dominique Mehl
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Elite Beliefs and the Theory of Democratic Elitism
2009Abstract This article discusses the empirical evidence of four of the more controversial pillars of the democratic elitism thesis that has been defined by early studies. The review in this article further supports the survey studies that compare the elite and mass opinions in cross-national contexts. An assessment of the elitists' claims
Robert Rohrschneider, Mark Peffley
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