Elite Foundations of Liberal Democracy,9780742553606

Elite Foundations of Liberal Democracy

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ISBN13: 9780742553606
ISBN10: 0742553604
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-07-27
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

This compelling and convincing study, the capstone of decades of research, argues that political regimes are created and sustained by elites. Liberal democracies are no exception; they depend, above all, on the formation and persistence of consensually united elites. John Higley and Michael Burton explore the circumstances and ways in which such elites have formed in the modern world. They identify pressures that may cause a basic change in the structure and functioning of elites in established liberal democracies, and they ask if the elites cluster around George W. Bush are a harbinger of this change. The authors' powerful and important argument reframes our thinking about liberal democracy and questions optimistic assumptions about the prospects for its spread in the twenty-first century.

Author Biography

John Higley is professor of government and sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and chair of the Research Committee on Political Elites of the International Political Science Association Michael Burton is professor of sociology at Loyola College in Maryland

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Elites and Regimes
1(32)
Disunited Elites and Unstable Regimes
33(22)
Settlements among Disunited Elites
55(52)
Colonial Origins of Consensually United Elites
107(32)
Convergences among Disunited Elites
139(42)
Elites and Liberal Democratic Prospects
181(26)
Bibliography 207(12)
Index 219(10)
About the Authors 229

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