Elites and people : challenges to democracy /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Engelstad, Fredrik (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Gulbrandsen, Trygve (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Mangset, Marte (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Teigen, Mari (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
• Σειρά: Comparative social research ; v. 34.
• Θέματα: Elite (Social sciences) > Political activity.; Democracy.; Social Science, Social Classes.; Social classes.

This volume contains an Open Access chapter. Relationships between elites and democracy have always been strained. The very concept of elites - of 'chosen people' - stands in contradiction to democratic ideals of political equality. Simultaneously, they are necessary parts of democratic so...