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"Elite" as a concept, theory, and research tradition -- A review of ethnographic research on elites in complex societies -- Elite communities and institutional orders / George E. Marcus -- Elite theory and the formation of elites among the Bura intellectuals of Nigeria / Ronald Cohen -- The ordered world of the university administrator / F.G. Bailey -- Being and doing / Carol J. Greenhouse -- The reproduction of the ruling class in Latifundist, Sicily, 1860-1920 / Jane and Peter Schneider -- The dissolution of the ruling class in twentieth-century Sicily / Peter and Jane Schneider -- Oligopolistic competition among state elites in princely India / Lloyd D. and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph -- The fiduciary role in American family dynasties and their institutional legacy / George E. Marcus -- Elites versus the state / Edward C. Hansen and Timothy C. Parrish

Since the beginning of the current era of imperialism in the late nineteenth century, there has been a striking contrast between bourgeois political thought in Germany and the West. Walter Struve demonstrates how German political culture went through a phase in which great emphasis was placed on the establishment of a new political elite recruited on the basis of merit and skill, but ruling in an authoritarian way, and not controlled by the populace. He suggests that this type of elitism, many aspects of which were vital to the political culture of Nazi Germany, seems today to be widespread i