Elite Configurations at the Apex of Power

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-12808-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 85, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 553 g

Reihe: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology

This book, prepared under the auspices of the IPSA Research Committee on Political Elites, focuses on the interpenetration between various types of elites: politicians, owners of capital, corporate managers, higher state administrators, directors of public enterprises, controllers of media, military officers and the civic-cultural establishment. The contributions to this book reveal contrasting patterns of recruitment and selection in terms of career paths, visibility, influence, and power of different elite circles. This diversity of national elite configurations challenges the C. Wright Mills' theory of an integrated "power elite", which appears from a comparative perspective to be peculiar to the United States during the early post-war period. Key concepts are discussed and empirically tested: ruling class, political class, elite circulation versus elite reproduction, elite interpenetration, elite interlocks, elite cohesion, elite osmosis, functional elite roles, formal and informal networks, elite cousinhood, separation versus overlapping between wealth and power, and between power and social capital.
The book covers a great variety of countries: post-industrial democracies (France, Britain, Germany, Canada), new democracies (East-Central Europe, Mexico) and modernizing regimes (Southeast Asia, Tropical Africa), presented by an international selection of distinguished contributors: Andras Bozoki, Roderic Camp, William Case, Jean-Pascal Daloz, Mattei Dogan, Dennis Kavanagh, Michael Ornstein, David Richards, Erwin Scheuch and John Scott.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dogan, Mattei

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. What is and what is not ruling class, Mattei Dogan (Paris, France)
2. Is there a ruling class in France?, Mattei Dogan (Paris, France)
3. Informal and Formal Networking Among Elites: Mexican Capitalists and Polticians, Roderic A. Camp (Claremont California)
4. The structure of German Elites Across Regime Changes, Erwin Scheuch (Cologne, Germany)
5.The Corporate Elite in Britain, John Scott (Essex, UK)
6.Canadian Corporate Directorates:The Network in Comparative Perspective, Michael Ornstein (Toronto, Canada)
7.Theoretical Interpretations of Elite Change in East Central Europe, Andras Bozoki (Budapest, Hungary)
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8.Cabinet Ministers and Civil Servants in Britain, Dennis Kavanagh and David Richards (Liverpool, UK)
9.The Mandarins among the French Elites, Mattei Dogan (Paris)
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10. Interlocking Elites in Southeast Asia, William Case (Brisbane, Australia)
11.Big Men in Tropical Africa: How Elites Accumulate Positions and Resources, Jean-Pascal Daloz (Bordeaux, France)

Über Autor(innen)

Mattei Dogan, Ph.D., Sorbonne, is Honorary Research Director of National Center of Scientific Research, Paris and former Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles. His many articles and books include Comparing Nations: Concepts, Strategies and Substance (Blackwell, 1994) and Elites, Crises and the Origins of Regimes (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998).