This paper employs a multidisciplinary social sciences approach to analyse the political power of contemporary economic … them, directly or indirectly, into power or influence. This paper makes use of the classical concepts of structural and … instrumental power to explain the sources of their influence in democratic decision-making processes. I claim that a powerful and …

This article explores Protestantism's inadvertent, historic role in dispersing elite power and spurring democracy … printing and civil society and spurred competitors to copy. Resultant power dispersion altered elite incentives and increased … Protestant and Catholic missionaries. Protestant missions account for about half the variation in non-European democracy and …