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The ruling elites: elite theory, power, and American democracy
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The article was published on 1973-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 58 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Elite theory & Democracy.read more
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The Elite Variable in Democratic Transitions and Breakdowns
John Higley,Michael G. Burton +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between elites and regimes in Western nation-states since they began to consolidate after 1500 and showed that their approach makes good sense of the Western political record, that it does much to clarify prospects for stable democracies in developing societies today, and that it makes the increasingly elite-centered analysis of democratic transitions and breakdowns more systematic.
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Elite integration in stable democracies: a reconsideration
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use data from comparable surveys of national elites in the US, Australia and West Germany to argue that the configurations of elite circles in these societies reveal tight integration, as in the power elite and ruling class models, together with representation of numerous, diverse groups.
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Elite Integration in the United States and Australia
John Higley,Gwen Moore +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a typology of fragmented and integrated national elites and investigated the structure of the "consensually integrated" elite type, which is hypothesized to have largely similar structures consisting of personal interaction networks which are more inclusive and less class-based.
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THE ELITE QUESTION Toward a Normative Elite Theory of Organization
TL;DR: This article reviewed different theoretical perspectives on elite theory, and raised the long neglected elite question as a central issue in the analysis of power structure in modern organizations, and offered, for the first time, a normative elite theory of organization that is both descriptive and prescriptive and that has predictive as well as pre-criptive powers.
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Professionalization of Legislatures: Long-Term Change in Political Recruitment in Denmark and Norway
TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that a disparity can be observed between the socioeconomic composition of the electorate and the composition of elected, representative body, which acts as a legislature for the society.