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| Other authors / contributors: | Burton, Michael G., 1940-
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| ISBN: | 9780742568556
0742568555
0742553604
9780742553606
0742553612
9780742553613
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This compelling and convincing study, the capstone of decades of research, argues that political regimes are created and sustained by elites. Liberal democracies are no exception; they depend, above all, on the formation and persistence of consensually united elites. John Higley and Michael Burton explore the circumstances and ways in which such elites have formed in the modern world. They identify pressures that may cause a basic change in the structure and functioning of elites in established liberal democracies, and they ask if the elites cluster around George W. Bush are a harbinger of thi.
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| Other form: | Print version: Higley, John. Elite foundations of liberal democracy. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2006 0742553604 9780742553606
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