... financial, banking and other services to the core group of passport-holding elites. Bridging the gaps between an ethnography understanding expat communities as players in offshoring, and the more general analyses of offshoring processes, I here examine a “Russian” milieu that extends far wider than those...

...The first element that needs to be analysed is the role played by the economic crisis of 1985–1986 in ‘forcing’ the ruling elites in Algeria to open up the system. Government revenues fell due to the oil counter-shock, resulting in widespread impoverishment among the general population, which...

... protection of existing privileges. cliché management marketization competition commerce democracy elites elitism Johnson Jo economy Beckett Samuel violence Orwell George Byrne Liam Attlee Clement Churchill Winston inequality Kynaston David Osborne George public sphere Sandbrook Dominic...

... provincial towns animal sport authority ies bull baiting cockfighting elite gambling horseracing hunting fox and deer inns investment sociability court curling Florence golf guild Ireland Italy Münster Naples national identity New York Prato professionalisation Richmond skating...

...Definitions of corruption are provided. The cultural constructions of corruption are introduced and major theoretical approaches are outlined including elite theory; the role of ‘modernisation’; market theory; sociological theories; and cultural theories. Elite theory can penetrate issues including...

... the French and Algerian governments, Muslim elites, French veterans and pied-noir activists, all of whom offered their own representations of the harkis. Collectively, these discourses created a simplified, essentialised and politicised portrait of the harki...

...Can Russia, the European Union and the three major EU member states adopt a unified policy line in the global arena? This book investigates the cohesiveness of ‘greater Europe’ through the detailed scrutiny of policy statements by the leadership elites in the UK, France, Germany, Russia and the EU...

...‘I rest your loving obedient wife’. The relationship between these terms is at the heart of this study. This chapter explores the nature of power within the marriages of the Scottish elites between 1650 and 1850. It highlights the significance of the patriarchal system in shaping how men and women...

... of the marital economy in the everyday lives of the Scottish elites. Marriages were built around the marriage contract into the nineteenth century, and unions still failed at this stage, despite disavowal of mercenary motives and the exchange of romantic outpourings. The marital economy, which encompassed...

... Health Service statecraft Eurocommunism Gramsci Antonio Hegemony individualism repertoire abortion elites Labour Party Nixon Richard M United Kingdom Independence Party contestation friction Bevan Aneurin demography immigration sovereignty business gridlock referendum stasis...

...This Chapter considers events and developments from 2009 onwards. It looks at the emergence and growth of the Tea Party movement, the ideas and constituencies upon which it drew, the impact of the 2010 mid-term elections, the tensions between the movement and Republican Party elites...

... the original intentions of policymakers. abrasion actors agency Causality conservatism Conservatives Heseltine Michael Howe Geoffrey intercurrence realignment Tories American Political Development class complementarities elites Hay Colin Hegemony historical institutionalism institutionalism...

... to an attempt to create external conditions favourable for regional hegemony. Each type differed in severity, linked directly to internal and existential threats, as well as the extent to which elites perceived their hold on power to be under challenge. hybridising regimes Russia transitional regimes...

...Chapter Five takes as its starting point the various ways in which elite responses to security threats such as the National Security Strategy both summarise government perceptions of the most salient threats and are also intended to send messages to the public and shape their behaviour. It examines...

...A study of the development of political institutions and elites in the Middle East sheds light on the general process of modernisation in the British Empire. During the nineteenth century, the British extended their informal empire in the region of the Arabian/Persian Gulf primarily in order...

... genuine link real estate property vii Chinese elite NATO brokers China treasure islands crisis pirate islands or trade European Union republic 1974 Middle East Ministry of Internal Affairs Henley Index elites expat statecraft statehood Anastasiades Cyprus Papers scandals commodity...

... of citizenship. In most cases this simply means that the elites can partake in the global sharing of the pie using some of their fortune to overcome the asset they lag behind from their co-elite partners elsewhere – a “good” citizenship. Finally, the chapter and the book also contribute the idea that to further...

...The Rothenburg evidence suggests that those areas most likely to be characterized by a restrained pattern of witch-trials in early modern Germany were those in which a significant majority of the ruling elites came to realize that the social, economic and political stability of their territories...

... A F Khoqand Jizzakh Colonial Administration Agriculture Native Elites Repression Andrei Shestakov, one of the main historians and ideologues who produced articles and in the 1930s published a collection of archival documents on the 1916 revolt in Jizzakh, wrote that: the events (sobytiia...

... of the citizenship industry, which are outcomes of global processes (offshoring, financial crises and elite mobilities) as well as their local histories. Cyprus is the EU’s easternmost country, a post-colonial, post-war divided polity that accommodates Russian and Russophone elite migration, where the tiers...