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Varieties of economic elites? Preliminary results from the World Elite Database (WED)
Felix Bühlmann (Bühlmann, F.); Caroline Ahler Christesen (Christesen, C. A.); Bruno Cousin (Cousin, B.); François Denord (Denord, F.); Christoph Houman Ellersgaard (Ellersgaard, C. H.); Paul Lagneau-Ymonet (Lagneau-Ymonet, P.); Anton Grau Larsen (Larsen, A. G.); Mike Savage (Savage, M.); Sylvain Thine (Thine, S.); Kevin Young (Young, K.); Pedro Araujo (Araujo, P.); Paola Arrigoni (Arrigoni, P.); Jorge Atria (Atria, J.); Pierre Benz (Benz, P.); Johanna Behr (Behr, J.); Maria do Carmo Botelho (Botelho, M. do C.); Asif Butt (Butt, A.); Pedro Casanova (Casanova, P.); Luís Clemente-Casinhas (Clemente-Casinhas, L.); Ana Castellani (Castellani, A.); Fabio Cescon (Cescon, F.); Joselle Dagnes (Dagnes, J.); Hanna Debska (Debska, H.); Anne-Sophie Delval (Delval, A.-S.); Vitalina Dragun (Dragun, V.); Andreia Egas (Egas, A.); Kajsa Emilsson (Emilsson, K.); Xiaoguang Fan (Fan, X.); Fan Fu (Fu, F.); Julia Gentile (Gentile, J.); Orlando Gomes (Gomes, O.); Victoria Gronwald (Gronwald, V.); Mariana Heredia (Heredia, M.); Johannes Hjellbrekke (Hjellbrekke, J.); Jorge Honório (Honório, J.); Jie Huang (Huang, J.); Johnathan Inkley (Inkley, J.); Håkan Johansson (Johansson, H.); Ilkka Koiranen (Koiranen, I.); Aki Koivula (Koivula, A.); Hanna Kuusela (Kuusela, H.); Gabriel Levita (Levita, G.); Chao Ling (Ling, C.); Peng Lu (Lu, P.); Michael Lukas (Lukas, M.); Jacob Lunding (Lunding, J.); Mina Mahmoudzadeh (Mahmoudzadeh, M.); Sean McQuade (McQuade, S.); María Luisa Méndez (Méndez, M. L.); Nuno Nunes (Nunes, N.); Shay O'Brien (O'Brien, S.); Gabriel Otero (Otero, G.); Marta Pagnini (Pagnini, M.); Alejandro Pelfini (Pelfini, A.); Jéssica Chainho Pereira (Pereira, J.); Catalina Roa (Roa, C.); Thierry Rossier (Rossier, T.); Marte Lund Saga (Saga, M. L.); Dulce Santana (Santana, D.); Christian Schneickert (Schneickert, C.); Elisabeth Schimpfössl (Schimpfössl, E.); François Schoenberger (Schoenberger, F.); Izaura Solipa (Solipa, I.); Łukasz Trembaczowski (Trembaczowski, Ł.); Maren Toft (Toft, M.); Sofia Vale (Vale, S.); Pedro Vasconcelos (Vasconcelos, P.); Jorge Quesada Velazco (Quesada Velazco, J.); Tomasz Warczok (Warczok, T.); Xinguo Yu (Yu, X.); et al.
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British Journal of Sociology
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Abstract
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder comparative analysis. The World Elite Database (WED) addresses this dual challenge, by generating, based on a consistent definition, standardised data for 16 countries. This research note introduces WED, its construction principles, and presents preliminary findings on how economic elites differ across countries.
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Keywords
  • Sociology - Social Sciences
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Funding Reference Funding Entity
ES/W012650/1 Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
323488 Academy of Finland
22ASH006 National Science Fund of China
2024QQJH136 Chinese Academy of Social Sciences