Elite settlements and the taming of politics

Government and Opposition

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 98-115

  Higley, John ^a   Burton, Michael ^a  

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EID: 0039448279     PISSN: 0017257X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1998.tb00785.x     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Giovanni Sartori, 'How Far Can Free Government Travel?', Journal of Democracy, 6 (July 1995), pp. 101-11.
2. Michael G. Burton and John Higley, 'Elite Settlements', American Sociological Review, 52: 3 (June 1987), pp. 295-317.
3. The best (but neglected) treatment is S. E. Finer, 'Pareto and Pluto-Democracy: The Retreat to the Galapagos', American Political Science Review, 62 (1968), pp. 440-50.
4. Giovanni Sartori, Democratic Theory Revisited, Chatham, NJ, Chatham House Publishers, Vol. 1, p. 224.
5. Guillermo O'Donnell, 'Illusions About Consolidation', Journal of Democracy, 7 (April 1996), pp. 34-51.
6. For discussion of the French and Italian elite convergences, see the chapters by M. Burton, Richard Gunther and J. Higley, and by Maurizio Colta in J. Higley and R. Gunther, Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
7. The British colonial experience of course differed greatly in its depth, duration and democratic/non-democratic outcomes. See Myron Weiner, 'Empirical Democratic Theory', in M. Weiner and Ergun Ozbudun, Competitive Elections in Developing Countries, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 1987; for discussion of the Malaysian pattern, in which an internally competitive elite cartel is still very much in evidence, see William Case, Elites and Regimes in Malaysia, Melbourne, Monash University Press, 1996.
8. The British colonial experience of course differed greatly in its depth, duration and democratic/non-democratic outcomes. See Myron Weiner, 'Empirical Democratic Theory', in M. Weiner and Ergun Ozbudun, Competitive Elections in Developing Countries, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 1987; for discussion of the Malaysian pattern, in which an internally competitive elite cartel is still very much in evidence, see William Case, Elites and Regimes in Malaysia, Melbourne, Monash University Press, 1996.
9. Harvey Mansfield, 'Party Government and the Settlement of 1688', American Political Science Review, 63 (1964), pp. 933-46.
10. Samuel P. Huntington, The Third Wave: Demoratization in the Late Twentieth Century, Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.
11. Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
12. Ibid.
13. M. Burton, R. Gunther and J. Higley, Introduction, and R. Gunther, 'Spain: The Very Model of the Modern Elite Settlement', in Higley and Gunther, Elites and Democratic Consolidation.
14. Here we follow, albeit with different concepts, the accounts given by Linz and Stepan, op. cit.
15. Ibid., pp. 137-8.
16. Ralf Dahrendorf, Society and Democracy in Germany, New York, Doubleday, 1967, pp. 265-79.
17. See e.g. John A. Peeler, 'Elite Settlements and Democratic Consolidation: Colombia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela', in Higley and Gunther, Elites and Democratic Consolidation.
18. Charles Guy Gillespie, 'The Role of Civil-Military Pacts in Elite Settlements and Elite Convergence: Democratic Consolidation in Uruguay', in Higley and Gunther, Elites and Democratic Consolisation; see also the chapter on Uruguay in Linz and Stepan, op. cit.
19. Charles Guy Gillespie, 'The Role of Civil-Military Pacts in Elite Settlements and Elite Convergence: Democratic Consolidation in Uruguay', in Higley and Gunther, Elites and Democratic Consolisation; see also the chapter on Uruguay in Linz and Stepan, op. cit.
20. Alan Knight, 'Mexico's Elite Settlement: Conjuncture and Consequences' in Higley and Gunther, Elites and Democratic Consolidation.
21. Peeler, op. cit.
22. For example, Kevin Neuhouser, 'Democratic Stability in Venezuela: Elite Settlement or Class Compromise?', American Sociological Review, 57 (1992), pp. 117-35.
23. Arturo Valenzuela, The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Chile, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978, p. 19.
24. These constraints and suspicions are well summarized by Linz and Stepan, op. cit.
25. Guillermo O'Donnell, 'Delegative Democracy', Journal of Democracy, 5 (January 1994), pp. 55-69.
26. Larry Diamond, 'Is The Third Wave Over?', Journal of Democracy, 7 (July 1996), pp. 20-37.
27. Rudolf L. Tokes, Hungary's Negotiated Revolution: Economic Reform, Social Change and Political Succession, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
28. David Lane, 'The Gorbachev Revolution: The Role of the Political Elite in Regime Disintegration', Political Studies, 44 (April 1996), pp. 4-23; 'Transition Under 'Eltsin: The Nomenklatura and Political Elite Circulation', Political Studies, 45 (Dec. 1997), pp. 855-74.
29. David Lane, 'The Gorbachev Revolution: The Role of the Political Elite in Regime Disintegration', Political Studies, 44 (April 1996), pp. 4-23; 'Transition Under 'Eltsin: The Nomenklatura and Political Elite Circulation', Political Studies, 45 (Dec. 1997), pp. 855-74.