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Rising wealth inequality is both a topic in recent policy discussion and in the social sciences. Despite the general interest in wealth concentration, we know only little about the largest privately held fortunes. To help fill this gap we analyze the historical origins of Germany's 1,032 largest...
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elite responsibility, is currently on the rise. …
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. Based on this understanding, this paper analyses the role of elites in policy processes, focusing on elite formation and … that the dominant analyses of the role of the elites in the policy process in Mozambique overlook the process of elite … formation, which contributes to the existence of multiple and overlapping elite identities in the policy process. In this regard …
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Der Bericht beschreibt Erkenntnisinteresse, Anlage und Erstellung der Studie 'Entscheidungsträger in Deutschland: Werte und Einstellungen'. Im Mittelpunkt der Befragung stehen die gesellschaftspolitischen Einstellungen und Handlungsmaximen sowie die Karrieremotive und Lebensverläufe der...
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bureaucratic elite has been joining the business elite after leaving office, and this in growing numbers. This relationship has … purpose of this paper is to explain why this social behavior takes place, and why the political elite does not try to prevent … it. Moreover, this paper shows that the bureaucratic elite obtains excessive bureaucratic power, and that promiscuous …
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intergenerational framework, we show that a two-tier higher education system with standard and elite universities generates social … stratification, high social immobility and self-reproduction of the elite. Moreover, we show that the higher the relative funding for … elite universities, the higher the elite self-reproduction, and the lower social mobility. We also analyse the impacts of …
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incumbent elite is a negative function of the distance to the free world. In consequence, there are conflicting effects of …
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Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this...
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The recent shift from ‘global villageism’ to the ‘new wars’ revealed a deep crisis in heterodox political economy. The popular belief in neoliberal globalization, peace dividends, fiscal conservatism and sound finance that dominated the 1980s and 1990s suddenly collapsed. The early 2000s...
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