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Libya’s local elites and the politics of alliance building

Mediterranean Politics, 2015
In post-revolutionary Libya, the collapse of central authority and the fragmentation of territorial control have produced a fundamental change in the political elite. Local elites emerged as the leading actors and held the key to whether central authority would be re-established.
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Researching local elites: reflexivity, ‘situatedness’ and political-temporal contingency

Geoforum, 1999
Ward, K. G., Jones, M. (1999). Researching local elites: reflexivity, ‘situatedness’ and political-temporal contingency. Geoforum, 30 (4), 301-312.
Kevin G. Ward, Martin Jones
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Local Political Elites in Indonesia: “Risers” and “Holdovers”

Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 2014
Local political elites in post-Soeharto Indonesia have become increasingly diverse, challenging the dominant characterizations of them as leftovers of the old regime or political opportunists. Existing literature on Indonesia’s local politics tends to focus on top-tier elected officials, such as provincial governors, district regents and municipal ...
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Elections, Parties and Elites in Indonesia's Local Politics

South East Asia Research, 2007
This paper examines the processes and outcomes of Indonesia's first ever direct local elections through an analysis of the 2006 mayoral election in Batam.
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The Local Political Elite in the Democratic Transformation of Belarus

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1995
Comparative analysis of data from the Democracy and Local Governance research program shows that political power in the Slavic states of the former USSR is based on similar social and political values: social equality; dominant rights of the majority; and inequality of political participation of various social strata and groups.
JANE M. GRICHTCHENKO, A. A. GRITSANOV
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The Role of Local Political Elites in East Central Europe

2021
How does the elite continue to affect the evolution of local communities in the developing region of former Sovietized Europe? This book is concerned with the issue of local leadership in the countries of East-Central Europe. It is an attempt to examine, with a comparative method, the profile and the role of the local political elites (members of the ...
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The Marginalisation of Local Political Elites in Britain

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 1984
Experience since the late 1970s in Britain has shown the limitations of regarding central -local government relations as a bargaining relationship between interdependent actors, as found in the United States of America, France, and West Germany. The actions of the present Conservative Government highlight the weakness of British local government. This
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How Do Local Business Elites Influence Local Politics?

This paper examines the impact of the power of business elites on subnational governments. Drawing on the business in politics literature, which measures the power of business elites based on their capacity to work cohesively within business organizations, I argue that organizational strength increases business influence only among economic sectors ...
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The changing sociopolitical profile of local political elites (mukhias) in Bihar

Contributions to Indian Sociology, 2005
This article seeks to examine the changing sociopolitical profile of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI) representatives in Bihar. It argues (a) that the political assertion of the upper backward caste-Yadavas, Koeris and Kurmis-in Bihar dates back to the pre-Mandal period; (b) that the OBCs are not a homogeneous sociopolitical community, since they ...
Ashok Kumar Pankaj, Mahendra Prasad Singh   +1 more
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Methodological problems of the local political elite analysis

2011
The article analyzes the ways to overcome methodological difficulties and the variants of solving theoretical problems that inevitably arise during the research of the elitist agenda. The definition and characteristic of the local elite are given.
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