Description
Book Synopsisaeo The book highlights the importance of the autonomy of counter--elites of social movements in the move to more democratic and egalitarian Western democracies. aeo The author combines a liberal, democratic elite perspective with a progessive, egalitarian orientation.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements.
Introduction.
Part I: Elites and Classes: Bringing Elites Back In.
1. Why Class Theory has Overshadowed Elite Theory: A Matter of Coincidence.
2. Why Class Theory Should not have Overshadowed Elite Theory: A Matter of Democracy.
Part II: The Autonomy of Elites and Western thought.
3. Democratic Elite Theory.
4. Other Theories: A Comparison.
Part III: The Demo-Elite Perspective.
5. The Autonomy of Elites and Democracy.
6. Elite Autonomy Versus Co-operation and the Historical Development of Democracy.
Part IV: The Autonomy of Elites and the Success (or Failure) of Democracy.
7. Stabilization Versus Breakdown of Democracy: The Cases of Britain and Germany.
8. Problems of Transition to Democracy in eastern Europe: The Cases of the Soviet Union and Poland.
Part V: Meanwhile in the West: Problems and Potential of Democracy.
9. Elite Autonomy Under Siege and Problems of Western Democracy.
10. Social Protest Movements and the Potential of Western Democracy.
Conclusion.
References.
