revisits the question of how attending an elite college affects later-life outcomes. We expand the scope along two dimensions …

nondemocracy to democracy, alters the distribution of de jure political power, but the elite can intensify their investments in de … we refer to as invariance. When the model is enriched to allow for limits on the exercise of de facto power by the elite … may survive, but choose economic institutions favoring the elite. The main ideas featuring in the model are illustrated …

This paper replicates a classic study of the American business elite. The older study done a half-century ago, reported … the composition of the" American business elite has changed. As in the earlier study, the business elite is compared to a …" sample of political leaders. I find that democratization of the business elite has progressed only" slightly in the past …

How do elites mobilize commoners to participate in a war? How does war mobilization affect elite power after the war … and after the war. By examining how pre-war elite connections affected where soldiers who were killed came from, and …