D Our analyses of congressional voting confirm the existence of this non-party elite coalition. While these elites lost …

timing of the extensions of this right from elite groups to a broad population generally later, than in areas where there was …

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 …

This review essay of the two-volume Cambridge History of Capitalism (2014), edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey G … criticize the definition of capitalism used in these volumes as too expansive to be useful. I argue that this definition mars … the essays in first volume by stimulating a fruitless search for capitalism in the millennium before the Industrial …

While most contemporary historians agree that the use of debt peonage as a coercive labor contract in Mexico was not … watch property rights were reallocated through land laws, and Mexico's economy became much more closely tied to the United …