The phrase "a governing class" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a group of people who hold power and authority in a political or social context.
Example: "The policies implemented by a governing class often reflect the interests of the elite rather than the general population."
Alternatives: "ruling class" or "political elite".
The history of the 20th century is the history of professionalisation, and the creation in government – and elsewhere – of a governing class that relegated citizens to the role of spectators.
Also flagged was the "massive corruption", documented last year by the World Bank, which has created a governing class which has "become wealthy by misappropriating government funds".The letter's four authors conclude that there is "very little to show" in the way of roads, medical services, and education after nine years of self rule two of which have been as an independent state.
What remains, argued Mair, is a "governing class".
And he blasted a governing class preoccupied with itself while Italian citizens struggled to make ends meet.
His inability to find experts within the party's ranks shows that it has not developed a governing class to match the old regime.
The special character of Venetian society created a governing class very different from that of the other Italian communes or of the continental states.
While the U.S. does not have a recognizable governing class, England and France do.
In Washington, meanwhile, a hidebound governing class pretends that none of this is happening, stubbornly insisting that it's still 1945 with the so-called American Century destined to continue for several centuries more (reflecting, of course, God's express intentions). .
In this there-ought-to-be-a-law school of governing, class is suddenly, intensely in session.
This is an argument conservatives have made for many years, dating back as far as the political theories of James Burnham, whose 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution" was an early classic on an emerging new governing class, the "bureaucratic elite".
He emphasised the importance of sound institutions and sensible policies in improving the lot of poorer nations, many of which rotted from the entrenched depredations of a self-serving governing class.
