prevent it. Moreover, this paper shows that the bureaucratic elite obtains excessive bureaucratic power, and that promiscuous … bureaucratic elite has been joining the business elite after leaving office, and this in growing numbers. This relationship has …. The purpose of this paper is to explain why this social behavior takes place, and why the political elite does not try to …

power as a relative ability to control the evolution of social surroundings is introduced. Second, building on the …

more likely to emerge, leading ultimately to the establishment of power-sharing mechanisms that allow elite groups to … establishment of power-sharing institutions in societies divided by ethnic or religious cleavages. Going beyond existing scholarly … work focused on these specific settings, we argue that political power-sharing institutions can also be the result of …

We introduce a dynamic model that investigates the persistence and evolution of elite-dominated societies, where … exit options in the evolution of political inclusiveness across generations. An elite comparatively more mobile than the … generations. Exit options across different political entities lead to a joint evolution of local power structures. …