Political elites
20 Feb 2011 21:02Are they inevitable? If so, how do we tame them? If not, are they desirable? Establishments vs. oligarchies. Meritocracy. Decadence.,
See also: Congress; Democracy; Political Decision-Making
- Recommended:
- Stanislav Andreski, Military Organization and Society
- Almost any good book on archaeology. They have a marvellously hard-bitten way of looking at political power, almost as flinty-eyed as Tacitus's.
- F. G. Bailey, Humbuggery and Manipulation: The Art of Leadership
- Domhoff, Who Rules America? and the updated edition, Who Rules America Now?
- Ibn Khaldún, The Muqaddimah
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
- Tacitus, The Annals and The Histories
- To read:
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Randolph M. Siverson and James D. Morrow, The Logic of Political Survival [Blurb]
- Tom Bottomore, Elites and Society
- Clifford W. Brown, Jr., Lynda W. Powell and Clyde Wilcox, Serious Money: Fundraising and Contributing in Presidential Nomination Campaigns [Blurb]
- Elizabeth Drew, Whatever It Takes: The Real Struggle for Political Power in America
- John Gledhill, Power and Its Disguises: Anthropological Perspectives on Politics
- Kristin Kanthak, "Top-Down Divergence: The Effect of Party-Determined Power on Candidate Ideological Placement", journal of Theoretical Politics 14 (2002): 301--323
- Richard Lachmann, Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe [Or, how capitalism was born from the quarrels of tyrants]
- Fred S. McChesney, Money for Nothing: Politicians, Rent Extraction, and Political Extortion
- A. J. McGann, Bernard Grofman and W. Koetzle, "Why party leaders are more extreme than their members: Modeling sequential elimination elections in the U.S. House of Representatives", Public Choice 113 (2002): 337--356
- Gaetano Mosca, The Ruling Class
- Pareto
- John Waterbury, The Commander of the Faithful: The Moroccan Political Elite
- Richard W. Wilson, Compliance Ideologies: Rethinking Political Culture [Blurb]
- Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff, Diversity in the Power Elite: Have Women and Minorities Reached the Top? [1998]
