Elites and Society
Elites, elitism and society
... For Gaetano Mosca, there is only one form of government, and that’s the oligarchic form of governance, so the dominance of a minority is present in any political regime, regardless of denominations. Likewise, in every ...
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Appointed Elites in the Political Parties – Albania Case
... The aim of the party is to maximise the membership and penetrate very deep in society. An example of this is the preparation of the party for the local elections of 24 July 1996. The Democratic Party started the ...
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Religion, Warrior Elites, and Property Rights
... a society and a religion will direct religions toward such things as non-salvageable, quality- assuring capital including large religious structures, priestly garb, and unique ...
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Religion, Warrior Elites, and Property Rights
... localized society possessing an effective religion experiences economic growth because it has a defined and divinely enforced property rights ...a society with a successful religion-based property rights ...
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Run by the poor for the poor? : social elites in the early modern public house
... Even a quick glance at this evidence produces impressions not easily squared with the overall thesis outlined above. A rare record of a tavern visitation (for the German principality of Lippe around 1800), for instance, ...
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Dispossession by ‘Development’: Corporations, Elites and NGOs in Bangladesh
... and private sectors. Since the country was formed in 1971, the NGO sector has experienced phenomenal growth, evolution and diversification, delivering public goods to such an extent that Rehman Sobhan (1997) has forecast ...
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Power Elites in Pakistan: Creation, Contestations, Continuity
... power elites was helpful to nation-building. Since elites act in their own self-interest, as shown by the landlords’ obstruction of reform and by West Pakistan’s corporate elites’ monopolisation of ...
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European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-57
... Theosophical society, founded in 1875 in Adyar, Madras (now Chennai), ...the society quickly spread, opening chapters in America, New Zealand, Australia, and several European countries, including England, ...
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The role of networks and connections in educational elites’ labour market entrance
... The research evidence presented in this article is based on an ESRC-funded project on the way talent, merit, and elite employability are conceived by elite students in England and France. Both countries have specific ...
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Gender as Symbolic Capital and Violence: The Case of Corporate Elites in Turkey
... Whilst highlighting the paradox of continuity and change regarding gender relations in Turkish society, we make three significant theoretical contributions. First, framing gender as symbolic capital is not only a ...
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The Third Revolution Professional Elites in the Modern World
... professional society, but in the final analysis it is only the German model, with its apparently well-nigh perfect social market economy, which earns full ...professional elites who are 'good servants but ...
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Taste matters : cultural capital and elites in proximate strategic action fields
... in society when he explained to us how a recent book had prompted him to reflect about ‘the gratuitous nature of conflicts throughout history’ (Public Sector ...
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Corporate governance and elites
... religion, elites and corporate governance. Whereas political and cultural elites have attracted attention amongst scholars, the literature examining religious elites is extremely ...by elites ...
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Islam and politics: political attitudes of the elites in Muhammadiyah 1998-2010
... The earliest form of the Islamic state was based in Medina, the next Muslim civilization moved into Damascus (Syria) under Umayyah Empire for less than one century (661-750 C). Moreover, after the failure of Umayyah ...
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European elites of the European Union: what vision for the future?
... Italian leaders have been even more positive about all aspects of European integration than the Germans, although they too are reticent on further enlargement. Italian leaders’ discourse since Alcide De Gasperi presented ...
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Selling debt: interrogating the moral claims of the financial elites in Central Asia
... Hirschman (1982) argues that markets can be a benign force that tames wild passions, and liberates society from traditional bonds to achieve material improvements. But equally ascriptive relationships and customs ...
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Immigrants or Elites?: Contextualizing the Motivation of the Rural American Vote in the Trump Era
... Not only is the importance of education level something that is persistently debated, an individual's education level also tends to be an indicator of partisanship and voting behavior. As Sides, Tesler and Vavreck found, ...
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Elites and modernity in Mozambique
... As shown by Sheldon (2002) in her in-depth study of women’s history in Mozambique from the late pre-colonial period to the present, in many ways intimate relationships that did not directly lead to marriage and child ...
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Transnational Elites in the ILO and the EESC: Do non-governmental actors matter?
... civil society’ 1 , and was formally established by the 1957 Treaty of ...of society outside of political parties, and thus constitute the foundation of civil ...
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Information and arena: The dual function of the news media for political elites
... Second, the mass media as a whole form a political arena. Elites use this arena to reach out to the public. In many ways, the media arena is comparable to other arenas, such as the parliamentary arena. Competing ...
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