political elites

A bigger problem may be the fear among political elites, some of whom will stick at nothing to stay in power and out of jail.

sub-Saharan Africa has missed out on the prosperity, due to wars and corrupt political elites.

A typical ignorant Chinese will likely to be misled by the political elites and its media, how good is the Chinese Government.

Those with the best connections to political elites have been largely spared their fair share of the pain.

Theories that exclude the interactions between a few political elites and the multitude of ordinary people are of little vitality.

The Nigerian military still regards itself as the ultimate guarantor of the state's security, and most political elites agree.

So, in less than 15 years, the political elites in the power centres of the world had come to broadly similar conclusions.

Indeed, in both Russia and China the ruling party and political elites have been strengthening their power base by expanding into business.

Columnists acted as messengers for political elites, writing articles that attacked corresponding political rivals.

Therefore, the University has been both a cradle of political elites and a cradle of intellectual elites.

The belief that the changes have benefited business and political elites far more than ordinary people is widespread.

The gulf between the political elites and the people is growing, and it is hard to see what will bridge it.

Huang traces China's purposeful tilting of opportunity toward cities to the rent-seeking schemes of political elites.

On the contrary, their political elites are pursuing an alternative to the prevailing western model.

As political elites return to the fore, the unity of purpose that joined them regardless of sect or ideology is fraying.

And the longer Europe's economic crisis persists, the more desperate political elites will seek business to the east.

"The Europeanisation of political elites was largely taken for granted, " says Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, a Berlin-based Romanian academic.

That group won't include political elites desperate to keep their power.

'At this moment, nothing is certain, ' said Bo Zhiyue, an expert on Chinese political elites at the National University of Singapore.

Pre-paid billing, based on top-up cards, makes phones more affordable to those outside the business and political elites.

The Structural Holes and the Superiority of Control of the Political Elites--A Case Study of a Village with High Social Differentiation