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Elite athletes: why does the ‘fire’ burn so brightly?
Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 2004 Background and Purpose: What drives some athletes to achieve at the highest level whilst other athletes fail to achieve their physical potential? Why does the ‘fire’ burn so brightly for some elite athletes and not for others?
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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
Mark Peffley, Robert Rohrschneider
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Elite theory and neo‐elite theory understandings of democracy: An analysis and criticism
Australian Journal of Political Science, 1992Paieto and Mosca, the original elite theorists, in addition to combating socialism developed a new analysis of and set of norms for democratic societies. Some democratic theorists counter‐attacked while others tried to incorporate parts of elite theory into their understandings of democracy.
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The Development of Elite Theory
2017This chapter introduces the handbook section on elite theory. It traces the roots of elite theory to Machiavelli and Hobbes and considers the seminal influence of Pareto, Mosca, Michels, Weber, Schumpeter, and Ortega y Gasset. It provides an overview of elite theory itself and links the composition, recruitment, and relative integration of elite groups,
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Elite-teorie en demokrasie/Elite theory and democracy
South African Journal of Sociology, 1985The elite theory seen in theoretical perspective within the ambit of Political Sociology offers certain possibilities as far as description and, perhaps, explanation of power in a society are concerned. This theory implies that power, on a macro-social level, is concentrated in the hands of an elite whose manipulation of the power enables it to control
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2019
Political systems involve people who use power to make policy in response to group needs and demands. The relation between who such people are and what they do therefore becomes an important subject of analysis. The effects of elites on policy and policy on elites are the two dimensions necessary to understanding—and eventually to explaining ...
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Political systems involve people who use power to make policy in response to group needs and demands. The relation between who such people are and what they do therefore becomes an important subject of analysis. The effects of elites on policy and policy on elites are the two dimensions necessary to understanding—and eventually to explaining ...
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