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ELITES AND PEOPLE

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COMPARATIVE SOCIAL RESEARCH

Series Editor: Fredrik Engelstad

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COMPARATIVE SOCIAL RESEARCH Volume 34

ELITES AND PEOPLE: CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY

EDITED BY

FREDRIK ENGELSTAD

University of Oslo, Norway/Institute for Social Research, Norway

TRYGVE GULBRANDSEN

Institute for Social Research, Norway

MARTE MANGSET

Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway/Institute for Social Research, Norway

MARI TEIGEN

Institute for Social Research, Norway

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About the Contributors

Fredrik Engelstad is a Professor (em) in Sociology at the University of Oslo, and formerly the Director of the Institute for Social Research in Oslo. He has published widely on organizations, power, sociology of culture and sociological theory. Recently, he headed a large-scale project on institutional change in Scandinavia, materialising in three books, of which the most recent is Democratic State and Democratic Society (2018).

Anja Gibson is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Educational Sciences at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Her research focusses on qualitative educational research, including biographical, organisational and classroom research. She has conducted studies on elite education and elite (boarding) schools, on educational inequality, and family and school socialisation. Currently, she is working on a qualitative longitudinal study on elite school students from their mid-teens to mid-twenties.

Trygve Gulbrandsen is a Research Professor (em) at the Institute of Social Research and formerly the Adjunct Professor in Sociology at the University of Oslo. His research covers a broad range of topics including elites, ownership, power, trust, professions and civil society. His most recent publication on elites is the book Elites in an Egalitarian Society (2019).

Borbála Göncz is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology and Social Policy at the Corvinus University of Budapest. Her research interests include attitudes towards the European integration process and European identity. Related to these topics, she has recently co-edited National Political Elites, European Integration and the Eurozone Crisis published by Routledge in 2018, co-authored an article published in Historical Social Research and authored several book chapters.

John Higley is an Emeritus Professor of Government and Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, where he was the Chair of the Government Department and holder of the Jack S. Blanton Chair in Australian Studies. He also chaired the IPSA Research Committee on Political Elites. He has (co)edited a large number of books on elites, the most recent being The Palgrave Handbook of Political Elites (2018, with Heinrich Best). He is also the co-author of Elite Foundations of Liberal Democracy (2006, with Michael Burton).

Ursula Hoffmann-Lange is a Professor Emerita of Political Science at the University of Bamberg. Her fields of research are elites, political culture and democratisation. She is a member of an international research network studying political culture in democratic countries, coordinated by the Transformation Research Unit at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. She has published numerous articles in the field of elite studies, along with the book Eliten, Macht und Konflikt in der Bundesrepublik (Elites, Power, and Conflict in the German Federal Republic, 1992).

Farida Jalalzai publishes works related to women national executives including Shattered, Cracked and Firmly Intact: Women and the Executive Glass Ceiling Worldwide (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Women Presidents of Latin America: Beyond Family Ties? (Routledge, 2016). Dr Jalalzai’s current book project is Senhora Presidenta: Women’s Representation in Brazil during Dilma Rousseff’s Presidency (with Pedro dos Santos, under contract with Temple University Press). She has also authored several articles and book chapters on this topic.

György Lengyel is a Professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest, where he is the Head of the Centre for Empirical Social Research and the Editor-in-Chief of the Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. Among his recent publications is the “Irresponsible elites in opposition and government” In L. Vogel et al. (Eds.), The Contested Status of Political Elites. At the Crossroads. Routledge, N.Y., 2019 (with G. Ilonszki).

Marte Mangset is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway. She holds a PhD from Sciences Po Paris and from the University of Bergen, and specialises in international comparative sociological studies of knowledge, education and power. She has studied bureaucratic elites in Norway, France and Britain and engaged in theoretical discussions in elite theory. She is the Co-editor of Comparative Social Research.

Jules Naudet is a CNRS Research Fellow at the CEIAS (EHESS), Paris, France. He is the Co-editor-in-Chief of La Vie des Idées/Books and Ideas as well as the Co-editor, along with Surinder Jodhka, of the book series “Exploring India’s Elite”. Naudet is also the author of Stepping into the Elite (2018). He now dedicates his research to an ethnographic study of the role of sociability in power and wealth dynamics, doing fieldwork both in Paris and in New Delhi.

Kjetil Selvik is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. His research focusses on the sources of authoritarian resilience in Iran and the Arab world. His articles have appeared in journals like Democratization, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, World Development, The Middle East Journal, Comparative Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies. He is the Co-author of Stability and Change in the Modern Middle East (IB Taurus, 2011, with Stig Stenslie) and the Co-editor of Oil States in the New Middle East: Uprisings and Stability (Routledge, 2016, with Bj⊘rn Olav Utvik).

Shirin Shahrokni is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at York University’s Glendon College. Her research bridges the sociology of immigration and race relations, with a focus on the trajectories and identities of descendants of immigrants in France and Canada. Shahrokni’s current project examines the settlement pathways of francophone immigrants in Canada, outside Quebec. She is also part of a SSHRC-funded collaborative research on the racialisation process experienced by Asian international students across several Canadian universities.

Stig Stenslie is a Professor at the Norwegian Defence Intelligence College. He has published a number of books on the Middle East and China, including 49 Myths About China (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, with Marte K. Galtung), Regime Stability in Saudi Arabia: The Challenge of Succession (Routledge, 2011) and Stability and Change in the Modern Middle East (IB Taurus, 2011, with Kjetil Selvik).

Laura Szabó, is a Research Fellow in the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute. In collaboration with the Centre for Empirical Social Research, Corvinus University of Budapest, she had worked as a Researcher and Survey Analyst in the European National Elites and the Crisis 2014 project. Her main topic of analysis was the trust of the Hungarian national elites in national and supranational institutions of the European Union.

Mari Teigen is a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway. She is Head of the Centre for Research on Gender Equality and the Centre for Research on Gender Equality in Research and Innovation. Her research engages with change and stability in gender relations, through analysis of gender equality policy, social elites and gender segregation in the labour market and in academia. Teigen is the Editor of the Norwegian Journal of Gender Research and the Co-editor of Comparative Social Research.

Editorial Board

• Fredrik Engelstad

  University of Oslo, Norway/Institute for Social Research, Norway

• Kristian Berg Harpviken

  Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway

• Marte Mangset

  Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway/Institute for Social Research, Norway

• Lars Mj⊘set

  University of Oslo, Norway

• Axel West Pedersen

  Institute for Social Research, Norway

• Liza Reisel

  Institute for Social Research, Norway

• Mari Teigen

  Institute for Social Research, Norway

• Assistant Editor: Daniel Arnesen

  Institute for Social Research, Norway

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