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Political Elites, Elite Quality and Elite Recruitment

2015
Although the belief in government by ‘the best people’ can be traced back to Plato, it was Niccolo Machiavelli who formulated it most clearly, and who is therefore regarded as an intellectual patron of elitism—an approach that places at the centre of attention political leaders and elites, and that assesses their ‘elite quality’ in terms of virtu, that
Jan Pakulski, Bruce Tranter
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Authoritarian Elites

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
AbstractWe explore the role of ruling elites in autocratic regimes and provide an assessment of tools useful to clarify the structure of opaque political environments. We first showcase the importance of analyzing autocratic regimes as non‐unitary actors by discussing extant work on non‐democracies in sub‐Saharan Africa and China, where the prevailing ...
Adlai Newson, Francesco Trebbi
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Political Elites

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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Convincing elites, controlling elites

2011
Within 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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Elite athletes? Or elite parenting?

2022
Organised sport is a prominent part of contemporary Western childhood, with many families scheduling their leisure time around their children’s sporting endeavours. Children who appear talented in a particular sport and find themselves competing at a representative level require a level of commitment and dedication from their parents that matches their
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The Elite and the Elites

American Journal of Sociology, 1942
Individuals of high "special personal prestige" belong to the elite of their group. Social ascendancy, however, is directed toward a position of high total social prestige. Such social prestige can be attained only when an individual holds an elite position in several elite groups that belong to elite categories.
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Political Elites as Educational Elites

2017
In twenty-first-century Western Europe, almost all incumbents in political office have very high formal credentials. Aristocracy, rule by the nobility, has given way to meritocracy, rule by the well-educated. This dominance of the well-educated in the legislative and executive branches is a relatively modern phenomenon.
Mark Bovens, Anchrit Wille
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Technical Elites and Social Elites

Sociology of Education, 1963
The 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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