Today's successful economies were able to develop such institutions consistent with national political and social cultures and with the bureaucratic and entrepreneurial capacities of local elites.

India s Elites in Crisis

Meanwhile, politics belongs to the elites.

Indian elites reach the same conclusion for different reasons.

That should be the task of meritocratically selected elites.

Enlightened Japanese elites are fascinated by Franco German reconciliation.

European economic elites perceive China and India very differently.

To some extent, the elites have themselves to blame.

For example, Japanese elites tend to favor continuity over change.

But choosing educated elites is only part of the story.

But the post revolutionary elites are ideologically cynical and opportunistic.

The elites have fought back, often brutally, to protect their property.

Third, a widening generation gap has spread to the ruling elites.

Most of the faculty members are power and water industry elites.

It is up to European citizens and elites to avoid the worst.

One faction primarily comprised elites opposed to state intervention in the market.

NEW YORK Elites are under siege in every corner of the world.

The French Revolution never actually ended the privileges of France s ruling elites.

But their political and economic elites frequently seem incapable of doing so.

The association of elites with foreignness, tolerance, and metropolitan cities is nothing new.

The crucial point is that America s conservative elites believe Brooks, Eberstadt, and Murray.

The traditional Bangkok elites had always thought of him as an uncouth upstart.

Italian elites are not the only ones in need of being shaken up.

Trust in political elites and in national and European institutions has been steadily declining.

The answer should be clear by now interest group politics and policy elites worldview.

And both countries are experiencing an increase in popular suspicion toward traditional political elites.

Complaints about crime and unfamiliar customs were often dismissed by liberal elites as racism.

Instead, policy elites (and most economists) favor strengthening what is euphemistically called global governance.

Iraq s political elites have resisted Maliki s desire for a second term for two reasons.

It is blatantly obvious that for Russia s elites, weakness and cooperation are mutually exclusive.

That is why the elites in general are so quick to ridicule this movement.

Typically, in the populist political imagination, elites disproportionately care for those who, like themselves, do not really belong. Europe s elites are regularly accused of lavishing benefits on ethnic minorities in the name of protecting their rights.

National and local politicians are being held to increasingly higher standards of environmental protection. A new era of citizen involvement and public scrutiny has begun, creating opportunities for truly inclusive environmental action that promise to achieve more than elites negotiating behind closed doors ever could.

Instead, the benefits of privatization and other initiatives went largely to political and business elites.

Both countries also possess a fairly educated middle class and intelligentsia alongside more traditional elites.

The people s movement also took the lid off social pressures often disregarded by Nepal s elites.

The real problem of traditional elites may not be too much power, but too little.

Russia s elites still largely think in the power categories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

India s corrupt elites had moved from controlling licenses to cornering newly valuable resources like land.

Without him, fighting between the rural poor and the urban elites could quickly erupt again.

They attack the old elites not to shake things up, but to take their power.

to Pharaoh and his elites but they acted arrogantly and they were a tyrannical lot .

In fact, elites everywhere have always lived by this injunction, and ordinary people have not minded very much, provided that the elites fulfill their part of the bargain protect the country against its enemies and improve living conditions.

The gap between the respective qualities of China s economic and scientific elites, on the one hand, and its ruling political elites, on the other, is simply too monumental and still growing for stability to be taken for granted.

Transparency would also foster trust between companies and local communities. So far, communities in the vicinity of extraction operations have often been hostile to the process, seeing themselves as the victims of environmental damage, while domestic elites and foreign companies are presumed to be the primary beneficiaries.