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This book provides readers with a broad picture of what has changed, and what has failed to change, in the Lebanese political system after the end of the civil war.

Given the growing interest in social movements as policy agenda setters, this paper investigates the contexts within which movement groups and actors work with political elites to promote their common goals for pol- icy change. In asking how and why so-called outsiders gain access to elites and to the policymaking process, I address several contemporary theoretical and empirical concerns associated with policy change as a social movement goal. I examine the claim that movements use a multi- pronged, long-term strategy by working with and targeting policymakers and political institutions on the one hand, while shaping public prefer- ences ! hearts and minds ! on the other; that these efforts are not mutually exclusive. In addition, I look at how social movement organiza- tions and actors are critical in expanding issue conflict outside narrow policy networks, often encouraged to do so by political elites with similar policy objectives. And, I discuss actors' mobility in transitioning from institutional activists to movement and organizational leaders, and even to protesters, and vice versa. The interchangeability of roles among actors promoting social change in strategic action fields points to the porous and fluid boundaries between state and nonstate actors and organizations.

Education and Consecration of Neoliberal Elites: Introduction -- Business, Economics, and the Nobel Prize: History and Legacy -- Admission: Privilege, Values and Practices -- Consecration, Business Skills and Leadership: The Student Union -- Teaching Business: The Invisible Hand in Class -- Affinity: Pedagogics for a Future Elite -- Academic Freedom and the Business Community -- Business School Faculty and Neoliberal Thinking -- Lifelong Social Relationships and Networks: Business School Alumni -- Elitism and Masculinity: Business Schools and Elite Employers -- Business Schools and the Consecration of Elites: Conclusions.

An attempt to compare the values representing conceptions of the good society & the good world for Soviet & US elites. 6 elites are diff'iated on each side. 40 dimensions of value are used. The content of journals representative of orientations of each elite are analyzed for 1957-60. Tables show a distribution of value preferences according to positions on each dimension, as well as saliency of dimension for each elite. Results indicate little inter-societal overlap on values at the heart of ideological conflict over the good society, but much overlap on peripheral values & on those concerning the good world. AA.

This book examines three cases of democratic transitions by self-transformation of the non-democratic regimes in Southern Europethe Spanish reforma pactada-ruptura pactada of 1976-77, the Greek "Markezinis experiment" of 1973, and the Turkish democratic transition of 1983in a comparative perspective. The author argues that a democratic transition initiated by the regime elites is, in contrast to widely held assumptions and notwithstanding some reservations on whether democracy can be (re-)introduced by non-democrats, worth viewing as a "window of opportunity" for democratisation. It is up to the democratic counter-elites to respond to it, using the civil society and the international factor as allies to achieve their goal of acquiring more concessions from the regime. Ioannis Tzortis is Teaching Fellow in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Bilderberg People explores the hidden mechanisms of influence at work in the private world, and personal interactions, of the transnational power elite. It is not concerned with conspiracy theories; instead it is about certain fundamental forces that shape the world in which we live. These forces, with their power to bring about transitions in emotion and preference within, and beyond, the elite community have potentially profound implications for all of us. Through exclusive interviews with attendees of the most prestigious of all informal transnational networks - Bilderberg - this book provides a unique insight into the networking habits and motivations of the world's most powerful people. Moreover, it demonstrates that elite consensus is not simply a product of collective common sense among the elite group; rather, it is a consequence of subtle power relationships within the elite circle. These relationships, which are embedded in the very fabric of elite institutions and interactions, result in a particular brand of enlightened thinking within the elite community. This exciting new volume sheds light for the first time on the critical question of who runs the world and why they run it the way they do.