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Belgium: Democracy or Oligarchy?

, 1988
L. DE WINTER, 'Belgium: Democracy or Oligarchy?' in M. GALLAGHER, M. MARSH (eds.), Candidate Selection in Comparative Perspective, SAGE, London, 1988, p.
De Winter, Lieven
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Imprisoned independence: the oligarchs’ victory in dictating democratic practices in Indonesia

Frontiers in Political Science
The relationship between oligarchic power and democratic practice has become a central concern in contemporary political scholarship, particularly in countries experiencing democratic backsliding.
Usman Idris, Vinsensio M. A. Dugis, Toetik Koesbardiati, Bunga Surawijaya Ningsih, Agus Danugroho   +4 more
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Edmund Burke on the Irish Protestant Plebeian Oligarchy

, 2021
This paper systematically explores the theoretical connotations of Edmund Burke’s political thought on the so called “Irish Protestant Plebeian Oligarchy” problem.Political Science, Department ...
Li, Haimo
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Ukraine’s Economic Transformation in Western Academic Literature: A Selective Review [PDF]

International Economic Policy, 2005
This article provides a limited and selective review of the academic literature on Ukraine’s economic transformation, specifically 1) recapping what have been the major trends in this research; 2) what has been learned; and, 3) what is still useful to ...
Oleh Havrylyshyn
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Who Says Networks, Says Oligarchy? Oligarchies as "Rich Club" Networks [PDF]

, 2016
Departing from Roberto Michels's classic analysis of oligarchy, we provide a structural analysis of the concept based on social network analysis. We de ne oligarchy as a social network that exhibits three structural properties: tight interconnections ...
Zhou, S, Bichir, R, Ansell, C
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Why Michels’ ‘iron law of oligarchy’ is not an iron law – and how democratic organisations can stay ‘oligarchy-free’

, 2018
More than 100 years ago, Robert Michels laid out his theory of the ‘iron law of oligarchy’. The main, and crucial, point Michels made is that oligarchy will always emerge; even in the case of genuine attempts to organise and run organisations in non ...
Thomas Diefenbach
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Introduction. Elite Theory: Philosophical Challenges. [PDF]

Topoi (Dordr), 2022
Damele G, Campos AS.
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Oligarchy

, 2019
When Tash, daughter of a Russian oligarch, is sent to an English boarding school, she is new to the strange rituals of the girls there. Theirs is a world of strict pecking orders, eating disorders and Instagram angst. While she spends her time with the
Thomas, Scarlett
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A substancialidade dos procedimentos oligárquicos no Brasil entre 1995 e 1998: as análises de Faoro

Caderno CRH
Este estudo mapeia as reflexões de Raymundo Faoro, na segunda metade da década de 1990, com base em artigos e entrevistas publicados pelo autor na revista Carta Capital, acerca da continuidade ou não dos procedimentos políticos que reafirmavam as ...
Maria José de Rezende
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