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Civil society elites: managers of civic capital
The article takes the first steps towards a general theory of civil society elites, a concept not fully developed in either elite or civil society...
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Elites
The concept of “elites” is probably one of the most controversial in the field of social sciences. Positional approaches tend to identify elites as...
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Sport for Development: A Social Movement Captured by Elites?
Over the last 30 years there has been a growth of actors involved in Sport for Development (SFD). Though some of these actors aligned with prevailing...
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Civil Society Elites Exploring the Composition, Reproduction, Integration, and Contestation of Civil Society Actors at the Top
This open access book introduces a groundbreaking concept - civil society elites - and serves as an essential resource for scholars, researchers and...
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The misruling elites: the state, local elites, and the social geography of the Chinese Revolution
The existing scholarship has developed six main explanations to account for the success of the Chinese Revolution, which has been anomalous for major...
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Development Elites, Impacted Communities, and Environmental Governance in Latin America
This special issue examines environmental governance, conceptualized as environmental protections, support for sustainable development, and the...
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Informal Elites
I engage with the work of Jo Freeman in this chapter and built on her concept of informal elites. I claim that both Strike Debt and Occupy Sandy, two...
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Citizens Committees and Local Elites: Elite Capture, Captured Elites, and Absent Elites in Health Facility Committees
Mainstream development policies often promote citizens committees to oversee basic social services. Such committees require influence over, and...
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Populists, Elites, and Anticlass Discourses
Populism is frequently associated with the broader population or a political faction that adopts a challenging or rebellious stance against the...
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Citation Elites in Polytheistic and Umbrella Disciplines: Patterns of Stratification and Concentration in Danish and British Science
The notion of science as a stratified system is clearly manifested in the markedly uneven distribution of productivity, rewards, resources, and...
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Civil Society Elites: An Introduction
This chapter explores the gap in civil society and elite studies. Researchers have recently observed elitist tendencies in civil society in which...
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The Paradox of Elites in Civil Society: A Comparative Study on Civil Society Leaders’ Satisfaction with Democracy in the UK and Sweden
The presence of an elite group in civil society elicits a discursive friction between the long-standing normative understanding of civil society,...
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Elites as Gatekeepers
In general, elites are studied because of their power over others. It is, however, argued that the prestige elite in sociology is not a power elite....
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Moral Elites and the De-Paradoxification of Danish Social Policy Between Civil Society and State (1849–2022)
The article argues that in Denmark during the past 150 years, moral elites have been central in settling paradoxes within social policy by develo**...
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The Elites in Twenty-First-Century Populism
This paper deals with the analysis of elites, offering brief overviews of how some authors have dealt with the presence of elites throughout history,...
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Partial non-response in political elite studies: an approach to parliamentary elites in Latin America
This paper provides empirical evidence on the prevalence and explanation of partial non-response in surveys conducted among political elites. We use...
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The Sacred and the Profane: the Differential Organization of Social Spheres between Liberal Elites and Lower Class Mizrahim in Israel
This article addresses an Israeli sociological riddle: Working class Israeli Jews of Middle Eastern and North African origin have good and empathetic...
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Michels, Mills and Civil Society Elites: Concluding Reflections and Avenues for Future Research
In this concluding chapter, we analyse the volume’s main findings and the paradoxical meaning of the concept of civil society elites using a classic...