| Summary: | "The Hoover Institute Studies undertakes to describe the world revolution of our time and its consequences for world politics and national policy. These studies were conducted by the Hoover Institute and Library on War, Revolution, and Peace as part of its research project on Revolution and the Development of International Relations (RADIR Project). The series of elite studies which this monograph introduces strikes to the center of the general goal of the project. The "leadership" of a society is a criterion of the values by which that society lives. The manner in which the "leadership" is chosen; the breadth of the social base from which it is recruited; the way in which it exercises the decision-making power; the extent and nature of its accountability--these and other attributes are indicators of the degree of shared power, shared respect, shared well-being, and shared safety in a given society at a given time. By learning the nature of the elite, we learn much about the nature of the society." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
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