Sociology of Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism". Elites from five countries that were selected to represent five world … regions (Germany, Poland, Turkey, Mexico and USA) compose the cross-national samples. Moreover, we included a sample of elites … working at the EU and global levels. For each of these seven cases, we sampled positional elites working in the following 12 …

, education and the role of elites. Finally, we conduct a "replication" exercise with some seminal papers in the literature …

The existing literature on finance, debt and inequality depicts economic elites as a creditor class. According to a …

difference-in-differences setting to show that political elites enriched themselves substantially after entering office … shock to elites' potential for rent-seeking. Political office-holders manipulated this crisis to enrich themselves further … urban political elites were "civic-minded" guardians of the common good. …

This paper discusses the issue of taxation and redistribution in economies dominated by Elites with limited state … capacity. Within a simple aggregate framework, we discuss the political economy incentives of Elites to tax, redistribute and … increasing returns for Elites to increase state capacity. The paper also discusses how the incentives for state capacity building …

nation has incorporated into an increasingly integrated global production and financial system. National elites have … experienced a new fractionation. Emergent transnationally-oriented elites grounded in globalized circuits of accumulation compete … with older nationally-oriented elites grounded in more protected and often state-guided national and regional circuits …