Search Results - subject_exact:"Elite"

Elite reform and mass resistance : female suffrage and political preferences in Germany, 1893-1933

Bühler, Mathias; Sabet, Navid - 2025

Who drives social change - the people or activist elites? While progressive reforms are often championed by elites, their preferences may diverge from those of the broader group they aim to represent, producing unintended political consequences. We study this dynamic in the context of female...

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Reproducing a white elite : the chief officers' "club" in the London Metropolitan Police Service

Clarke, Andre; Smith, Chris - 2024

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Patterns of executive removal and its consequences in democratic backsliding countries in Asia and Latin America

Watanabe, Aya; Inata, Kana; Kellam, Marisa - 2026

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Elite participation as a measure of global development

Bergh, Andreas - 2026

Treating development as the ability to participate in complex, non-subsistence, globally comparable activities, this paper proposes participation in elite activities as an indicator of global development. Using standardized rankings from 1970 to 2025 across domains, including sports, chess,...

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Human capital and labor market effects of elite schooling in England, Scotland, and Wales : new causal evidence from nonparametric bounds

Yu, Zhanhan; Amin, Vikesh; Flores, Carlos; … - 2026

We estimate the causal effect of attending elite schools in England, Scotland, and Wales on human capital and labor market outcomes for cohorts of children from the 1958 National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study. For identification, we employ a nonparametric...

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Superreiche in Österreich und ihre Netzwerke der Interessensdurchsetzung

Griesebner, Teresa; Pühringer, Stephan - 2026

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Marginal admission to elite high schools : long-run effects on labor market outcomes

Cabrera-Hernández, Francisco; Dustan, Andrew; … - 2026

We estimate the long-run effects of marginal admission to elite public high schools on students' labor supply in the context of Mexico City's centralized high school admission system. Using a regression discontinuity approach, we compare students whose placement exam scores are just above and...

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The influence of perceived commercialization and authenticity on fan engagement : insights from men’s and women's elite football leagues in Sweden

Winell, Erik; Lundberg, Erik; Nilsson, Jonas - 2026

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Post-industrialization and social inclusion : elite access to high-performing entrepreneurship in Vietnam

Klingler-Vidra, Robyn; Chalmers, Adam William; Ba-Linh Tran - 2026

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The consolidation of the Danish corporate elite : corporate elite factions in a small open economy

Grosen, Majsa Stina - 2026 - First edition

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The Civil War reduced slave owners' economic power but increased their political influence

Bellani, Luna; Hager, Anselm; Maurer, Stephan - 2026

Did Southern elites' economic losses from abolition translate into diminished political influence? Using novel census-linked data on state lawmakers across four slave-owning and two Northern states (1850-1880), we document a striking paradox: despite the massive wealth shock of emancipation, the...

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The civil war reduced slave owners' economic power but increased their political influence

Bellani, Luna; Hager, Anselm; Maurer, Stephan - 2026

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Private interest in the public good : cholera and the origins of sanitary reform

Gallardo-Albarrán, Daniel; Kappner, Kalle - 2026 - This version: May 19, 2026

European countries paved the way for modern economic growth in the 19th century with large-scale reforms facilitating human capital accumulation. The literature has looked at the role of elites in broad education investments, but less attention has been devoted to reforms promoting workers'...

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Elite philanthropy, neoliberal universities, and the politics of suppression : the case of the Palestine solidarity encampments

Saifer, Adam; Ahmad, Fahad - 2026

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Diamonds in the rough : how social class difference is (de)valued in elite accountancy firms

Ashley, Louise; Sommerlad, Hilary - 2026

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Enemy of the (democratic) state : the relation between the concentration of economic power and democracy

Katic, Ivana V.; Mizruchi, Mark S. - 2026

Despite a rich literature on the determinants of democracy, the influence of one theoretically important factor has been neglected thus far. Unlike factors such as development, growth, and inequality, the concentration of economic power and its correlate, business unity, have not received...

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Dynastic capital and the inheritance of social advantage

Lovenheim, Michael F.; Egeraat, Eppie van; Willén, … - 2026

We use population-wide Norwegian administrative data to examine how social capital is transmitted across generations. We construct a multidimensional measure of families' social position based on six dimensions: elite education, elite occupation, executive status, corporate elite, elite...

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A land of sages : a legacy of former elites and university professors in Vietnam

Toan Luu Duc Huynh; Duong, Kiet Tuan - 2026

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The oligarchic wealth elite in Austria : corporate networks and patterns of wealth accumulation

Pühringer, Stephan; Aistleitner, Matthias; Cserjan, Lukas - 2026

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Comment on Sobrinho, G.M.R., Ferreira, H.G., McDuff, D.R., Filgueiras, A. "Prevalence and levels of symptoms of anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation amongst elite male soccer players: an age- and education-matched controlled study" Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2026, 23, 362

Jakobsson, Niklas; Moore, Kristjan; Barbarioli, Bruno; … - 2026

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Concerns regarding "decoding the elite soccer player's psychological profile"

Moore, Kristjan - 2026

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The strength to share : adopting durable elite patronage

Theocharopoulos, Konstantinos - 2026

A common expectation is that weak incumbents are the ones most willing to rely on patronage, trading state resources for the support of elites, since that support can help them survive electoral competition. We show that this intuition changes once patronage is durable, developing an...

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How Brazil's rich evaluate redistribution and the state

Lopez, Felix; Reis, Elisa P.; Moreira, Thiago - 2026

Understanding the attitudes of the wealthiest toward inequality and redistribution is essential for explaining the persistence of inequality and the prospects for policy reform. This study examines these attitudes in Brazil, revealing paradoxes in both previous research and public opinion....

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The last or lasting samurai? : the impact of secondary education expansion on elite attainment and occupational sorting after Japan’s Meiji Restoration

Ichimura, Hidehiko; Sawada, Yasuyuki; Takayasu, Yutaro; … - 2026

When societies transition from hereditary to meritocratic systems, to what extent does educational expansion broaden access to elite positions and change inherited patterns of occupational sorting? We study Japan after the Meiji Restoration, which abolished samurai hereditary privileges in...

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The last or lasting Samurai? : the impact of secondary education expansion on elite attainment and occupational sorting after Japan's Meiji restoration

Ichimura, Hidehiko; Sawada, Yasuyuki; Takayasu, Yutaro; … - 2026

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Peers and careers : unequal returns to elite alumni networks

Fischer, Alexander; Gorshkov, Andrei; Sandoy, Tróndur … - 2026

Do alumni ties preserve economic advantage? Linking random tutorial-group assignments at a Danish business school to administrative career data, we show that students align careers more with group peers than others in the same cohort, particularly through shared workplaces. These effects are...

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Star spillovers in cheerleading : national team athletes at the intersection of elite and grassroots sports

Staubach, Rebecca - 2026

This study examines whether participation in an elite national team programme generates performance spillovers to athletes’ grassroots home teams. Specifically, it asks whether teams with at least one Team Germany athlete perform better and whether such effects increase with the number of...

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Childhood peers, occupational choice, and the intergenerational persistence of the elite

Laitila, Janne; Montonen, Jerry; Solomon, Samuel M. - 2026

This paper studies how childhood peer exposure shapes occupational choice and intergenerational mobility. We use population-wide administrative data and variation in exposure to school peers whose parents work in different occupations to identify the effects of exposure. Exposure to an...

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Top wealth and its historical origins: An analysis of Germany's largest privately held fortunes in 2019

Tisch, Daria; Ischinsky, Emma - 2023

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Top wealth and its historical origins : an analysis of Germany's largest privately held fortunes in 2019

Tisch, Daria; Ischinsky, Emma - 2023

Die zunehmende Vermögensungleichheit wird sowohl in aktuellen politischen Debatten als auch in den Sozialwissenschaften diskutiert. Trotz des breiten Interesses an der Vermögenskonzentration wissen wir bislang jedoch nur wenig über die größten Privatvermögen. Daher untersuchen wir die...

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The marriage of politics and economy : elite fusion in the age of modernization

Okazaki, Tetsuji; Matsumoto, Tomoko - 2023

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Elite Reform and Mass Resistance: Female Suffrage and Political Preferences in Germany, 1893-1933

Bühler, Mathias; Sabet, Navid - 2025

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Rise and fall of the Franchini Family: A sad case of fraud

Dalla Rosa, Elisa - 2025

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Rise and fall of the Franchini Family : a sad case of fraud

Dalla Rosa, Elisa - 2025

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Elite persistence in Africa : historical perspectives, state of knowledge and the path forward

Simson, Rebecca - 2025

In the 1960s and 1970s elite studies formed an integral part of the research agenda on newly independent African states. Commentators sought to predict the likely political and economic paths of independent African states based on the social backgrounds and political orientations of existing...

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Elite persistence in Africa: Historical perspectives, state of knowledge and the path forward

Simson, Rebecca - 2025

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Elite Persistence in Family: The Role of Adoption in Prewar Japan

Kumanomido, Hiroshi; Takayasu, Yutaro - 2025

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Beyond the elite : corporate directors and their networks in Britain : ca. 1880s-1910s

Lieshout, Carry van; Bennett, Robert J.; Smith, Harry - 2025

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Elite control through marriage over institutional change

Kim, Francis D.; Raj, Prateek - 2025

Economic inequality remains a persistent and widely studied issue in the social sciences. South Korea provides a striking example where the top 23 business groups, controlled by ultra-wealthy, family-owned conglomerates (chaebols), have maintained significant economic persistence and resisted...

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Manifestation of academic rackets in management research through early career sessions at academic conferences

Bal, Matthijs; Rossenberg, Yvonne van; Orhan, Mehmet A. - 2025

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Good as gold or merely glitter? : elite board members' impact on firm performance

Timoschenko, Veronika - 2025

This thesis investigates the influence of elite supervisory board members on the performance of German firms. Following the transformation of the German business landscape post-reunification, elite board members, characterized by their exceptional social capital, continue to play a crucial role....

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The elite paradigm driving australian aid policy : learning to live with the "cautious consensus"

Day, Benjamin S.; Wells, Tamas - 2025

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Are elites meritocratic and efficiency-seeking? : evidence from MBA students

Preuß, Marcel; Reyes, Germán; Somerville, Jason; Wu, Joy - 2025

Elites disproportionately influence policymaking, yet little is known about their fairness and efficiency preferences - key determinants of support for redistributive policies. We investigate these preferences using an incentivized lab experiment with a group of future elites - Ivy League MBA...

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The Swedish business elite and the gift explosion of 1947

Hasselberg, Ylva; Ohlsson, Henry - 2025

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Elite athlete activism, advocacy, and protest : a scoping review

O'Neill, Francis; Dickson, Geoff; Ströbel, Tim; … - 2025

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Idiosyncrasies of the oligarchic elite : on the political economy of wealth concentration in Austria

Pühringer, Stephan; Aistleitner, Matthias; Cserjan, Lukas - 2025

The increasing concentration of income and wealth on the national and international level is a topic that has received increased attention both in social science research as well as public policy debates. While data availability is a well-known and often-lamented problem in wealth studies,...

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Political power shifts, varying tax policy, and economic outcomes in a creative region

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Beladi, Hamid - 2025

We analyze how a permanent shift in political power in a region that is creative a la Richard Florida affects tax policy and economic outcomes. There are three groups of individuals in our region: laborers or workers, creative class members or entrepreneurs, and the elites. The elites initially...

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In defence of the indefensible : exploring justification narratives of corporate elites accused of corruption

Torbor, Mabel; Sarpong, David; Ofosu, George; Boakye, … - 2025

Drawing on the pragmatic turn in contemporary social theory, we explore how corporate elites accused of corruption in the context of weak institutions engage in their justification works. Empirically, we focus on three high-profile corruption scandals that shook Ghana between 2010 and 2020 and...

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The millionaire exodus myth : a critical reconsideration of the Henley & Partners Private Wealth Migration report

2025

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Unlocking financing opportunities : the impact of the ELITE Program on SMEs' financing

Fera, Pietro; Meles, Antonio; Moscariello, Nicola; … - 2025

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Wealth exodus : stopping non-dom flight

Bidwell, Sam - 2025

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Private highs : investigating university overmatch among students from elite schools

Blanden, Jo; Cassagneau-Francis, Oliver; Macmillan, Lindsey - 2025

Inequality in college attendance is a key driver of intergenerational mobility. We focus upstream to examine how elite high-schools - specifically UK private (feepaying) schools - shape university destinations across the achievement distribution. Using linked-administrative data, we show the...

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Private highs : investigating university overmatch among students from elite schools

Blanden, Jo; Cassagneau-Francis, Oliver; Macmillan, Lindsey - 2025

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Drain the swamp : a theory of anti-elite populism

Gratton, Gabriele; Lee, Barton E. - 2026

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Drain the swamp : a theory of anti-elite populism

Gratton, Gabriele; Lee, Barton E. - 2025

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Tariffs and corporate political activity : a survey experiment on US businesses

Dolan, Lindsay R.; Kubinec, Robert M.; Nielson, Daniel L.; … - 2025

The trade war with China has cost US producers and consumers hundreds of billions of dollars since 2018. Yet relatively few US businesses took action to oppose it. This study reports the results of an elite survey experiment on business political activity toward trade policy. Researchers...

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