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Genomes of the Golden Horde elites and their implications for the rulers of the Mongol Empire. [PDF]

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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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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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Authoritarian Elites

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
Abstract We 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 ...
Adlai Newson, Francesco Trebbi
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Democratic Elitism and the Autonomy of Elites

International Political Science Review, 1996
Commentators 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. This article contends that it is not possible to generalize about the attitude
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