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Studying the Judicial Elites: A Methodological Approach
This chapter offers a methodological contribution to the study and analysis of the judiciary. Judicial politics has sought to examine courts and...
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Consecrating Civil Society Elites in Europe: Examining Civil Society Prizes
Prize-giving is a common mechanism for the formation of social hierarchies. Although we find extensive studies of prizes in a wide range of social...
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Cadre parents and their entrepreneur children? The dual-track intergenerational reproduction of elites in China: 1978–2010
This article documents and conceptualizes a mode of reproduction of elites in a society in transition from state domination to market orientation. By...
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The Interstitial Elites of the Italian Foundations of Banking Origin
The foundations of banking origin (Fobs) are a consequence of the 1990s reform of the Italian banking system and one of the main places where...
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In the Company of Elites: Some Practical and Moral Dilemmas of Studying Up
The chapter outlines the ways in which restricted access to exclusive people and spaces impacts the way ethnographers relate to elites and ultimately...
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Populism and Plutocracy: From the Masses, for the Elites
The extreme wealth inequality around the world has led to an increase in populist political parties, which project them as alternatives to corrupt...
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Conducting quantitative studies with the participation of political elites: best practices for designing the study and soliciting the participation of political elites
Conducting quantitative research (e.g., surveys, a large number of interviews, experiments) with the participation of political elites is typically...
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Reproduction of Elites in Hong Kong through the Hong Kong Jockey Club
This chapter will show how the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC), a sports, gambling, and charitable establishment, filled the institutional void in...
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The Establishment of Global Elites with Neoliberal Mindsets? Liberal Bureaucratization in Switzerland
Switzerland’s corporate elite is marked by striking vertical disparities. This study delves into the question of whether the Swiss case provides...
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Contestation of Civil Society Elites: Targets, Sources, and Depths in Four National Contexts
Civil society is currently marked by two major trends—one is the shrinking civic space, as civil society actors are increasingly met with ideological...
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Nepali Speakers of West Bengal, Politics of Self-Rule, and Political Elites
For many years, Nepali speakers from the Indian state of West Bengal have been demanding a separate state called Gorkhaland that would cover...
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Moral Elites in the Danish Temperance Movement (1910–1919): Elite Struggles over Disease and Values
The chapter maps out the elite of the early Danish temperance movement and shows how distinct moral elites within the movement interpreted the cause...
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Making Sense of Prestige Elites
This final chapter synthesizes the major insights gleaned from the various empirical investigations in previous chapters and proposes several...
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Shooting Elites: An Ethnography of Wedding Film Production for Elites
At a global level, we find production companies specialized in recording specific moments of social life. The example of the so-called family cinema...
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The Legal Culture of the Judicial Elites in Mexico
This chapter addresses the central task of describing the types of legal culture that currently prevail in the Mexican federal judiciary. The...
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The State as a Challenger to Civil Society Elites: The Case of Poland
In recent decades, we can observe significant changes in states’ approaches towards civil society around the globe, including efforts to control...
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Networks of Interlocking Leaders: Exploring the Links and Identifying the Elites in four European countries
This chapter aims at analysing the inter-organisational networks emerging from interlocking leaders among the most resourceful, national-level civil...
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The effect of sampling mode on response rate and bias in elite surveys
The literature frequently recommends purposive sampling of elites based on the assumptions that random sampling negatively affects the response rate...
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Decentralisation, informal governmentality and the scope of community participation and accountability in the develo** world: a view from Pakistan
The mere introduction of local government is not enough in develo** countries such as Pakistan and community participation in decentralisation...