In my opinion, these people are much more wiser than, not only the political elite, even the intellectual elite, even opposition leaders including political parties.

It is as if German political elites think that they are back in the era of the gold standard.

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

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

But political elites, such as party activists and members of Congress, tend to be more extreme than the public.

Running against the political elite is, of course, the essence of populism everywhere.

The AKP has largely squandered the goodwill that first brought it to power on a wave of voter revulsion at the old political elite s rampant corruption.

يعني يا أخ عبد ربه، إحنا فش عنا غير هالشخص الوحيد إللي ممكن يكون رئيس عالحساب شعب الجبارين ولا لازم نحافظ على التقاليد العربية

Russia s political elite understands that the economy is capable of 5 6 annual growth.

But many people in the political elite and military circles were enraged by Khrushchev s revelations.

Most would suggest that a period of financial retrenchment and slow GDP growth poses a serious threat to the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is based on economic performance.

Today, many French journalists still resist the temptation to expose the private lives of the political elite.

The AKP came to represent this new elite and its quest for political power.

If it can, then perhaps watching other countries suffer will help convince the local political elite to consent to adjustment.

Indeed, such structural changes would weaken the elite s grip on political and economic power.

And of course the political elite in this country are protesting and expressing their support for the president as if He who created him had created no one else.

However, over time, most of these constitutions have been amended to suit the interests of the powerful dominant political elites.

Associated with this low level of consumption is widening inequality between the countryside and the cities, and between the political elites and the masses.

Iran s political elite sees the United States, rather than Europe, as their appropriate international counterpart.

As a result, formal and informal links between the new Turkish political élite and the Arab world have been easier to forge.

Years after the introduction of the Varlık Vergisi, the political elite of Turkey had difficulties to come to terms with the subject.

Whether Iraq achieves stability or is once again ripped apart by sectarian violence now depends, as it always has, on the new political elites. If the past is an indication of their future performance, there is reason for deep concern.

Moreover, Turkey s economic and social transformation brought forth a new elite. The AKP came to represent this new elite and its quest for political power.

Khamenei s political standing is closely associated with the current nuclear policy, and he lacks the charisma and authority necessary to move the political and religious elite toward compromise.

Yet it may also indicate that America's political elites are in the process of facing up to new realities and adjusting their view of China accordingly.

If the past is an indication of their future performance, there is reason for deep concern.

First and foremost, the political elite might suddenly back away from essential structural reforms, and the Mexican business community s current optimism could collapse.

But, while Ukraine s political elites have mastered the art of getting democratically elected, effective governance eludes them.

When the Dutch, the French, and the Irish voted against the European constitution, they were expressing distrust of their political elites.

NEWPORT BEACH Facing a turbulent political situation and recurrent street protests, Egypt s political elite would be well advised to focus on the economic implications of the current turmoil, whether they are in government or in opposition.

Like the ancient Greeks Hydra, Georgia s political elite never ceases to die and be reborn.

The President has appointed the late Ken Saro Wiwa s son as one of his special assistants, in an attempt to mend fences with political elites in the restive delta.

The resource curse means, of course, that Russian elites will prefer to postpone restructuring the economy and modernizing the country s political and economic institutions.

Few in Hong Kong are buying the political elite s mantra that the national education program is the right thing to do.

But there should be no doubt that he is a man of the regime a realist and moderate member of the Islamic Republic s political elite not a representative of the opposition.

Whether Iraq achieves stability or is once again ripped apart by sectarian violence now depends, as it always has, on the new political elites.

The Soviet demise encouraged US political elites to construct a unipolar view of America s global position and interest.

WASHINGTON, DC Europe s policy elite the people who call the shots at the national and eurozone level are in serious trouble.

Their independence was a result of the USSR s collapse, and, while some had national revolutions, in most Soviet elites and political culture remained entrenched.

Faced with the threat of financial sanctions, Iran s political elite is increasingly realizing the price of its confrontational course.

Populist demagogues blame political, cultural, and commercial elites for the anxieties of the modern world. They are accused, not entirely without reason, of imposing mass immigration, economic crisis, and loss of national identity on ordinary citizens.

One fundamental difference between France and Britain is that most of the mainstream political elite in France has long been broadly pro European.

But anxieties about being swamped by foreigners and dominated by outside powers are more acute in smaller countries, whose political elites seem particularly impotent.

But the incentives to escape the resource trap are weakened by the overwhelming importance of the resource rents to the wider political elite.

Dynastic succession safeguards the immediate and frequently extensive interests of the ruling family as well as those of the wider political and business elite.