Political Elite

Author : Alex Marland,Thierry Giasson,Andrea Lawlor
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774837965

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Political Elites in Canada by Alex Marland,Thierry Giasson,Andrea Lawlor Pdf

Political Elites in Canada offers a timely look at Canadian political power brokers and how they are adapting to a fast-paced digital media environment. Elite power structures are changing worldwide, with traditional influencers losing authority over prevailing social, economic, and political structures. This volume explores the changing landscape for power brokers, the ascent of new elites, and how they are using digital communication to connect with Canadians in unprecedented ways. Featuring studies of governmental decision makers in the public service and non-governmental influence brokers, such as social media commentators, this collection is a much-needed synthesis of elite politics in Canada.

Author : Geraint Parry
Publisher : ECPR Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780954796600

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Political Elites by Geraint Parry Pdf

Elites have been described both as the bulwarks of democracy and its very antithesis. Political Elites, first published in 1969, reviews the literature on the role of elites in politics. It deals with both the 'classic' elite theorists - Mosca, Pareto, Michels, Burnham and C. Wright Mills - and with many of the empirical and theoretical works on elites by modern political scientists and sociologists. It seeks to clarify the central terms of elite discourse, some of which have entered the everyday political vocabulary - 'elitism', 'power elite', 'establishment', 'elite consensus', 'iron law of oligarchy' and 'mass'. It explores the ways in which the descriptions of power relationships can subtly be infiltrated by the values of the observers. For this ECPR Classics edition Professor Parry has added an introduction reviewing significant new developments in elite political science.

Author : Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642597141

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Elite Capture by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò Pdf

“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position as Black lesbians with the explicit aim of building solidarity across lines of difference, identity politics is now frequently weaponized as a means of closing ranks around ever-narrower conceptions of group interests. But the trouble, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò deftly argues, is not with identity politics itself. Through a substantive engagement with the global Black radical tradition and a critical understanding of racial capitalism, Táíwò identifies the process by which a radical concept can be stripped of its political substance and liberatory potential by becoming the victim of elite capture—deployed by political, social, and economic elites in the service of their own interests. Táíwò’s crucial intervention both elucidates this complex process and helps us move beyond a binary of “class” vs. “race.” By rejecting elitist identity politics in favor of a constructive politics of radical solidarity, he advances the possibility of organizing across our differences in the urgent struggle for a better world.

Author : Frederick W. Frey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Leadership
ISBN : UOM:39015005176873

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The Turkish Political Elite by Frederick W. Frey Pdf

Author : Zhiyue Bo
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789812836731

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China's Elite Politics by Zhiyue Bo Pdf

Introduction : China's political elites and their challenges -- pt. I. Who governs : China's political elites. 1. Top leadership. 2. Central committee. 3. Institutional representation. 4. Factional balance -- pt. II. How to govern : challenges. 5. Snowstorms in the South. 6. The Tibet issue. 7. Sichuan earthquake. 8. Beijing olympic games -- Conclusion : China's prospects for democratization

Author : Heinrich Best,John Higley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137519047

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The Palgrave Handbook of Political Elites by Heinrich Best,John Higley Pdf

This handbook presents a comprehensive view of the current theory and research surrounding political elites, which is now a pivotal subject for academic study and public discourse. In 40 chapters by leading scholars, it displays the field’s richness and diversity. The handbook is organized in six sections, each introduced by a co-editor, focusing on theories about political elites, methods for studying them, their main structural and behavioral patterns worldwide, the differentiation and integration of political elite sectors, elite attributes and resources, and the dilemmas of political elites in this century. Forty years since Robert Putnam’s landmark Comparative Study of Political Elites, this handbook is an indispensable resource for scholars and students engaged in the study of this vibrant field.

Author : C.WRIGHT MILLS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE POWER ELITE by C.WRIGHT MILLS Pdf

Author : Louise Grace Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135761271

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The British Political Elite and the Soviet Union by Louise Grace Shaw Pdf

Private papers, diaries and government and Foreign Office records are used within this book to produce an analysis of the attitudes of the British political elite towards the Soviet Union, assessing the influence such attitudes had upon British foreign policy between May 1937 and August 1939.

Author : Peter Bachrach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351498937

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Political Elites in a Democracy by Peter Bachrach Pdf

One of the potentially explosive issues of the modern era is a vast and growing disparity between the overwhelming predominance of elites in the decision-making process and the democratic ideal that people should participate in making decisions that vitally affect them. In this book an impressive array of political theorists offer conflicting views on the form of democratic elitism practiced in the United States.Defining the political elite as "the power holders of the body politic," Harold Lasswell explains that the division into elite and mass is universal, while Robert Dahl confirms that key political, economic, and social decisions are indeed made by these tiny minorities. Paul Good man argues that we are now in a period of excessive centralization that he regards as "economically inefficient, technologically unnecessary, and humanly damaging." From another standpoint, Herbert Marcuse calls for a struggle against the ideology of tolerance husbanded by the political elites in this country and Jack L. Walker contends that elitist theory has provided an unconvincing explanation of the widespread political apathy in American society.As the events of recent decades vividly demonstrate, a growing number of people refuse to recognize elite rule. This many-sided work puts before the student a variety of strongly held opinions regarding the place and function of the political elite and its power. The wide range of authoritative articles makes Political Elites in a Democracy a most useful addition to every course in political science that touches on the subject of elites and political power.

Author : Alan Shipman,June Edmunds,Bryan Turner
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783087891

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The New Power Elite by Alan Shipman,June Edmunds,Bryan Turner Pdf

Elites have always ruled – wielding inordinate power and wealth, taking decisions that shape life for the rest. In good times the ‘1%’ can hide their privilege, or use growing social mobility and economic prosperity as a justification. When times get tougher there’s a backlash. So the first years of the twenty-first century – a time of financial crashes, oligarchy and corruption in the West; persistent poverty in the south; and rising inequality everywhere – have brought elites and ‘establishments’ under unprecedented fire. Yet those swept to power by this discontent are themselves a part of the elite, attacking from within and extending rather than ending its agenda. The New Power Elite shows how major political and social change is typically driven by renegade elite fractions, who co-opt or sideline elites’ traditional enemies. It is the first book to combine the politics, economics, sociology and history of elite rule to present a compact, comprehensive account of who’s at the top, and why we let them get there.

Author : Robert Presthus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1974-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521203449

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Elites in the Policy Process by Robert Presthus Pdf

Originally published in 1974, this volume presents the results of a five-year study into interest groups, funded by the Canada Council.

Author : Robert D. Putnam
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015002225681

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The Comparative Study of Political Elites by Robert D. Putnam Pdf

Author : John Crabtree,Francisco Durand
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783609062

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Peru by John Crabtree,Francisco Durand Pdf

While leftist governments have been elected across Latin America, this ‘Pink Tide’ has so far failed to reach Peru. Instead, the corporate elite remains firmly entrenched, and the left continues to be marginalised. Peru therefore represents a particularly stark example of ‘state capture’, in which an extreme concentration of wealth in the hands of a few corporations and pro-market technocrats has resulted in a monopoly on political power. Post the 2016 elections, John Crabtree and Francisco Durand look at the ways in which these elites have been able to consolidate their position at the expense of genuine democracy, with a particular focus on the role of mining and other extractive industries, where extensive privatization and deregulation has contributed to extreme disparities in wealth and power. In the process, Crabtree and Durand provide a unique case study of state development, by revealing the mechanisms used by elites to dominate political discussion and marginalize their opponents, as well as the role played by external actors such as international financial institutions and foreign investors. The significance of Crabtree’s findings therefore extends far beyond Peru, and illuminates the wider issue of why mineral-rich countries so often struggle to attain meaningful democracy.

Author : Thomas Julius Anton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1980-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0898380251

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Administered Politics by Thomas Julius Anton Pdf

Several years ago, freshly returned from a year in Stockholm but deeply en meshed in the American Malaise of the late 1960's, I sketched out an image of Swedish policy-making that defined a generalized policy-making role and sought to relate that role to both citizen attitudes and the elite political culture 1 in Sweden. Although that sketch seems to have been taken seriously by other foreigners, I think it is fair to say that the principal reaction of my Swedish friends and colleagues was amusement. When I later (1970-71) returned for another year in Stockholm, I found myself being introduced at parties as the man who had written ''that marvelously out-of-date sketch of how Swedish politics used to work-hah, hah. " Or, I would be referred to as the American who, like Marquis Childs some years earlier, "believed our propaganda. " By 1970-71, of course, the Swedish political environment had become more boisterous than it had been in 1967-68. Indeed, during the course of that year my amused colleagues found themselves enmeshed in a strike action against the government that was part of an emotional series of such actions that some observers thought would bring most public services to a halt. If my earlier portrait had been influenced (too much, they thought) by the American Malaise in which I was implicated, so must their later reaction to my portrait have been influenced (too much, I thought) by the Swedish Turmoil of 1970 and 1971.

Author : Tariq Thachil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107070080

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Elite Parties, Poor Voters by Tariq Thachil Pdf

Why do poor people often vote against their material interests? This puzzle has been famously studied within wealthy Western democracies, yet the fact that the poor voter paradox also routinely manifests within poor countries has remained unexplored. This book studies how this paradox emerged in India, the world's largest democracy. Tariq Thachil shows how arguments from studies of wealthy democracies (such as moral values voting) and the global south (such as patronage or ethnic appeals) cannot explain why poor voters in poor countries support parties that represent elite policy interests. He instead draws on extensive survey data and fieldwork to document a novel strategy through which elite parties can recruit the poor, while retaining the rich. He shows how these parties can win over disadvantaged voters by privately providing them with basic social services via grassroots affiliates. Such outsourcing permits the party itself to continue to represent the policy interests of their privileged base.