Politics and Political Elites in Latin America: Challenges and Trends, Alcбntara Manuel, Garcнa Montero Mercedes, Rivas Pйrez Cristina

Автор: Luis L.M. Aguiar, Christopher J. Schneider
Название: Researching Amongst Elites: Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Up
ISBN: 1409429555 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409429555
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Academics often direct their research `across` in order to examine issues that grip members of the middle classes, or `down` in order to understand the difficulties workers and other marginalized groups endure. This volume explores the challenges and difficulties involved in conducting research amongst the rich and elite.

Автор: Haggard Stephan, Kaufman Robert R.
Название: Dictators and Democrats: Masses, Elites, and Regime Change
ISBN: 0691172153 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691172156
Издательство: Wiley
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A rigorous and comprehensive account of recent democratic transitions around the world

From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political landscape. What drove these changes and what determined whether the emerging democracies would stabilize or revert to authoritarian rule? Dictators and Democrats takes a comprehensive look at the transitions to and from democracy in recent decades. Deploying both statistical and qualitative analysis, Stephen Haggard and Robert Kaufman engage with theories of democratic change and advocate approaches that emphasize political and institutional factors. While inequality has been a prominent explanation for democratic transitions, the authors argue that its role has been limited, and elites as well as masses can drive regime change.

Examining seventy-eight cases of democratic transition and twenty-five reversions since 1980, Haggard and Kaufman show how differences in authoritarian regimes and organizational capabilities shape popular protest and elite initiatives in transitions to democracy, and how institutional weaknesses cause some democracies to fail. The determinants of democracy lie in the strength of existing institutions and the public's capacity to engage in collective action. There are multiple routes to democracy, but those growing out of mass mobilization may provide more checks on incumbents than those emerging from intra-elite bargains.

Moving beyond well-known beliefs regarding regime changes, Dictators and Democrats explores the conditions under which transitions to democracy are likely to arise.

Автор: Heinrich Best; Ulrike Becker
Название: Elites in Transition
ISBN: 3810018449 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783810018441
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: "Who rules in Eastern Europe?" became a fundamental question for western researchers and other observers after communist regimes were established in the region, and it gained further importance as state socialism expanded into Central Europe after the Second World War. A political order which, according to Leninist theory of the state and to subsequent Stalinist political practice, was primarily a highly centralised and repressive power organisation, directed, as if it were natural, researchers attention towards the highest echelon of office holders in party and state. Extreme centralisation of power in these regimes was consequently linked to an elitist approach to analysing them from a distant viewpoint. It is one of the many paradoxes of state socialism, that a social and political order which presumptuously claimed to be the final destination of historical development and to be based on deterministic laws of social evolution, which claimed an egalitarian nature and denied the significance of the individual, was per- ceived through the idiosyncrasies, rivalries and personal traits of its rulers. The largest part of these societies remained in grey obscurity, onlyoccasion- ally revealing bits of valid information about a social life distant from the centres of power. It is debatable whether this top-headedness of western re- search into communist societies created a completely distorted picture of re- ality, however, it certainly contributed to an overestimation of the stability of these regimes, an underestimation of their factual diversity and a misjudge- ment of the extent of conflicts and cleavages dividing them.

Автор: Whitt, J. Allen
Название: Urban elites and mass transportation
ISBN: 0691641978 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691641973
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In an unusually systematic approach to the study of urban politics, this study compares three different models of political power to see which can best explain the development of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System in San Francisco and the attempts of Los Angeles to build a comparable system.

Originally published in 1982.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Автор: Roland Bloch; Alexander Mitterle; Catherine Parade
Название: Universities and the Production of Elites
ISBN: 3319539698 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319539690
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Описание: This book explores how universities as organizations influence and construct the production of academic elites and elitist institutions.

Автор: Good Kenneth
Название: Trust in the Capacities of the People, Distrust in Elites
ISBN: 1498502458 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498502450
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Описание: Democratization is conceived as an unending struggle by the poor majority against the small elite of wealth, status, and power. This book is a critical, comparative, and global approach to the study of democratization and the participants who bring the processes and actual struggles alive.

Название: Parliamentary Elites in Central and Eastern Europe
ISBN: 1138187526 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138187528
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Описание: This book provides a comparative examination of representative elites and their role in democratic development in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. It provides an in-depth analysis of representatives from eleven national parliaments and explores country-specific features of recruitment and representation.

Автор: Hunt
Название: The Rise and Fall of Elites
ISBN: 1138538264 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138538269
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Описание: Combining a thorough introduction to the work of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Italian social theo-rist Vilfredo Pareto with a highly read-able English translation of Pareto`s last monograph, "Generalizations," this work illus-trates precisely how and why demo-cratic forms of government undergo decay and are eventually re-invigo-rated

Автор: Saldin Robert P., Teles Steven M.
Название: Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites
ISBN: 0190880449 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190880446
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In Never Trump, Robert P. Saldin and Steven M. Teles argue that the influence of the movement turned out to be much larger than its disappointing impact on the election. Never Trump examines the reasons for this widespread and unprecedented intra-party opposition to Trump, why it took the form it did, and its longer-term consequences.

Автор: Best H., Higley J.
Название: Political Elites in the Transatlantic Crisis
ISBN: 1349466638 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349466634
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Beliefs held by US and European elites about unregulated markets and a currency union without fiscal union led to a transatlantic crisis unmatched in severity since the Great Depression. Leading scholars of elites analyze how elites have responded to the crisis, are altered by it and what this `hour of elites` means for democracy.

Автор: Tomsic, Matevz
Название: Elites in the new democracies
ISBN: 3631675046 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631675045
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: The book deals with the analysis of key political actors in the ‘new democracies’ from Central and Eastern Europe. It is focused on character of elites, particularly political ones, and their role in the process of societal change. The author argues that elite configuration in terms of relationships between different elite factions as well as their cultural profile has strong impact on developmental dynamics of these societies. Although – at least in some countries from the region – political elites have managed to build the institutional foundations of systems of a market economy and a parliamentary democracy, with only small chances of any reverses taking place, they have been much less successful in establishing mechanisms for society’s self-organisation.

Автор: Hristov Jasmin, Sprague Jeb, Tauss Aaron
Название: Paramilitary Groups and the State under Globalization: Political Violence, Elites, and Security
ISBN: 0367233533 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367233532
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This volume examines the phenomenon of paramilitarism across Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia, offering a nuanced perspective while identifying key patterns in the way paramilitary violence is implicated in processes of capital accumulation, state-building, and the reproduction of social power.