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Foreign Elites at Rome
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G. W. Bowersock
Published: 19 May 2005
...This chapter looks at Josephus’ literary career in Rome as part of a larger trend, which involved an increasing imperial interest in luring members of the foreign elite to the city within the context of the patron-client relationship. Examples of such men were the Syrian Nicolaus of Damascus, court...
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Nangarhar: A Model Province
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David Mansfield
Published: 01 May 2016
... and was implemented under the Governorship of Gul Aga Shirzai. This chapter focuses on the role that international, national, sub-national and local elites played in encouraging and facilitating the prohibition of opium poppy. In particular, it highlights the circumstances that led to counter narcotics rising up...
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High Skills, Low Wages
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Phillip Brown and others
Published: 03 December 2010
... of economic power. This is followed by a study of the American corporate elites and those who do not have a college degree. The discussion also looks at earnings, which are part of the total rewards for workers. The chapter also examines human capital, the global middle class, the importance of the national...
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Published: 01 June 2012
... and trading groups, which were to persist through until the 1930s and 1940s, were able to establish themselves. The chapter suggests that during the later eighteenth century, agricultural labour, capital, and the investment of the political elites were redistributed across the north Indian countryside...
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6 Law
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G. E. R. Lloyd
Published: 01 July 2009
...Some systems of law are represented as divinely sanctioned, others are recognised as made by humans. The administration of justice is often in the hands of a learned elite, trained for the purpose, but sometimes (as in ancient Greece) the responsibility lies with ordinary citizens. Taking examples...
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8 Science
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G. E. R. Lloyd
Published: 01 July 2009
... be seen as the more self-conscious and systematic development of trial and error procedures. The chapter studies the role of elites both in stimulating the institutionalization of science and in sometimes laying down restrictive rules for its conduct. cognitive capacities Crombie A C Hacking I...
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Conclusion: Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity
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G. E. R. Lloyd
Published: 01 July 2009
...This concluding chapter has two main aims. First, it summarises the findings of the preceding studies, the light they throw on the different ways in which different disciplines are established, and the roles of elites in those processes sometimes in stimulating, sometimes inhibiting innovation...
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10 International Organizations as a Profession: Professional Mobility and Power Distribution
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Jean‐Marc Coicaud
Published: 14 February 2008
... Ecole nationale d'administration diplomacy educational background elites socioeconomic background Dezalay Yves Economist The Garth B Harvard University moyenne bourgeoisie background petite bourgeoisie background University of Tokyo Colombia education high‐tech industries job security...
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Introduction
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Julian Goodare
Published: 14 October 2004
... as a consultative body, law and legislation, rise of personal monarchy, the privy council, officers and departments, traditional local government, new powers in the localities, nobility, government and elites in the Highlands, government and people, and whether there was a Stewart revolution in government. England...
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Published: 14 October 2004
...Governing the Highlands was very different from governing the rest of Scotland. The political elites of the Highlands barely recognised state authority, and had few connections to regular institutions of government. The internal government of the Highlands was in the hands of clan chiefs who did...
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Legitimacy Norms as Change Agents: Examining the Role of the Public Voice
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Andrew Joseph Loomis
Published: 27 March 2012
... on the judgments of policy elites, which, for reasons advanced here, understate the extent to which normative legitimacy exerts itself on international outcomes. The legitimacy evaluations of the /public/ , however, which are then activated through the public-elite axis in the domestic sphere, have...
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Policy‐Making and Policy‐Makers
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David French
Published: 26 January 2012
... senior officers Staff College ‘Whitehall type’ of senior officer Baker Sir Geoffrey Chief of the General Staff Deputy Chief of the General Staff Healey Denis Montgomery Field Marshal Viscount policy making elite Vice Chief of the General Staff Alexander A V Alexander Earl Attlee Clement...
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Central Planning With Regulated Market—The Flawed Model
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Włodzimierz Brus and Kazimierz Laski
Published: 11 April 1991
...The failure of the string of reforms in Soviet‐bloc countries can be attributed to a number of factors, in the first place to resistance of communist political elites eager to preserve their monopolistic power. This however should not overshadow the significance of the flaws in the economic reform...
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Published: 15 May 2008
... of relations between businessmen and political elites. It is shown that while heavily reliant on state resources, generally businessmen have not been able to capture the state, either at the national or local/regional level. 1. For the argument that limits on British industrialisation flowed...
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Toward a Translocal Elite Culture in the Ptolemaic Empire
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Christelle Fischer-Bovet
Published: 22 September 2016
... in the introduction of a cult of queen Arsinoe II, who was revered as benefactor for “all mankind,” and in the creation of a new cultural memory of Persian invaders as common enemies of Greek and Egyptian populationsEfforts to create a translocal elite intensified in the mid-third century as illustrated...
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Published: 22 September 2016
... with the innovation of conferring citizenship on office-holders in some subordinate communities. The chapter highlights the paradox that this devolved the right to create citiens to alien populations, while underlining its effect in integrating local elites into a wider community that was distinctly imperial in form...
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Published: 27 November 2014
...This chapter examines writing equipment and the ways in which their use reflects the elite's engagement with the powerful new technology of literacy in the Roman Empire's northern provinces, particularly Britain. It analyses the evidence for writing and literacy from Britain and some highly...
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4 Democratic Consolidation, Judicial Reform, and the Judicialization of Politics in Southern Europe
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Pedro C. Magalhães and others
Published: 16 November 2006
... de S political elites Vallinder T Weimar Republic change elites Iberian Peninsula Napoleonic model Roman‐Germanic law rules of the game transfer of sovereignty common law Fascism Shapiro M Alivizatos N Colonels junta Greece 1967–74 conservatism Constitutions Council of State Greece...
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Published: 13 January 2011
..., half-hearted accommodation of minorities, and political insecurity of ruling elites shape the country’s foreign policy, especially its policy towards India. Bangladesh domestic base foreign policy linkages national identity internal factors insecurity ruling elites Foreign policy, being...
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Demand: Who Wants What
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John Heathershaw and others
Published: 19 September 2024
... is thus both enabled by and constitutive of its supply of innovative, prestige-driven services, reflecting a decades-long cultural normalization of serving the global elite. elites from kleptocracies kleptocracy London Stock Exchange money laundering post Soviet as region or form of politics Gohil...