An Elite in Transition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Elite in Transition write by Tatiana Majcherkiewicz. This book was released on 2001. An Elite in Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Twentieth-Century Higher Education
Twentieth-Century Higher Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twentieth-Century Higher Education write by Martin Trow. This book was released on 2010-06-28. Twentieth-Century Higher Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abstract:
China's Scientific Elite
China's Scientific Elite - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China's Scientific Elite write by Cong Cao. This book was released on 2004-07-31. China's Scientific Elite available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. China's Scientific Elite is a study of those scientists holding China's highest academic honour - membership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Having carried out extensive systematic data collection of CAS members Cao examines the social stratification system of the Chinese science community and the way in which politics and political interference has effected the stratification. The book then goes on to compare the Chinese system to the stratification of the US scientific elite. The conclusions are fascinating, not least because one national elite resides in a democratic liberal social system, and the other in an authoritarian social system.
Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe
Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe write by John Higley. This book was released on 1992. Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A distinguished group of scholars examine recent transitions to democracy and the prospects for democratic stability in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay. They also assess the role of elites in the longer-established democratic regimes in Columbia, Costa Rica, Italy, Mexico and Venezuela. The authors conclude that in independent states with long records of political instability and authoritarian rule, democratic consolidation requires the achievement of elite 'consensual unity' - that is, agreement among all politically important elites on the worth of existing democratic institutions and respect for democratic rules-of-the-game, coupled with increased 'structural integration' among those elites. Two processes by which consensual unity can be established are explored - elite settlement, the negotiating of compromises on basic disagreements, and elite convergence, a more subtle series of tactical decisions by rival elites which have cumulative effect, over perhaps a generation.
Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy
Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy write by Michael Albertus. This book was released on 2018-01-25. Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that - in terms of institutional design, the allocation of power and privilege, and the lived experiences of citizens - democracy often does not restart the political game after displacing authoritarianism. Democratic institutions are frequently designed by the outgoing authoritarian regime to shield incumbent elites from the rule of law and give them an unfair advantage over politics and the economy after democratization. Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy systematically documents and analyzes the constitutional tools that outgoing authoritarian elites use to accomplish these ends, such as electoral system design, legislative appointments, federalism, legal immunities, constitutional tribunal design, and supermajority thresholds for change. The study provides wide-ranging evidence for these claims using data that spans the globe and dates from 1800 to the present. Albertus and Menaldo also conduct detailed case studies of Chile and Sweden. In doing so, they explain why some democracies successfully overhaul their elite-biased constitutions for more egalitarian social contracts.
