POL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bourgeoisie, Bonapartism, The Communist Manifesto
26 Feb 2016
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Elitism c wright mills: response to pluralist tendencies in american thought. Claim that us is egalitarian, has no elites: cold war us context - but no reason we can"t generalise from this, claim that elites are an effect of institutional complexity. Growth of economic, military and political pyramids". Refusal of earlier elite claims that elites exist naturally": more attention to intertwining of state and economic elites than earlier elitism. Production of elite by educational and other institutions. Elite pluralism: convergence of pluralism and elitism. Internal elite organization of groups: uneven playing field between groups. Competitive elitism: response to problem of democracy by elitists. Schumpeter, sartori: competition between elites for mass legitmacy. Mostly via parties and elections: but limited: elites retain upper hand. Enormous dynamism, growth dependence the system cannot survive if it cannot. Technological innovation incentive to invest in technology to replace labour with grow, accumulation of capital machinery.
