An institutional logic of elite collective action, focusing on the effects of patronal presidentialism, is shown to be useful in understanding such cyclic dynamics, explaining why "revolutions" occurred between 2003 and 2005 in Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan but not in countries like Russia, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan.
LulzSec was an elite hacker collective that obtained notoriety as much for their high profile targets as for their clever self-promotion.
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Oxfam's research, released on the eve of the WEF, said that the world's tiny multibillionaire elite controlled a collective worth of $1.7trn £1trnn).
Mr Douthat sees his point, to some extent:When I look at the disastrous period from 2003 till 2006, I see a series of tragedies for which Americans, and in particular the American elite, bear a collective responsibility.
We need to get away from this neoliberal notion that we are all individuals and follow the lead of the elite by acting as a collective – a collective strong enough to wipe the smug smile off the faces of the Francis Underwoods of the world.
Ignored for years by a cosmopolitan, educated and progressive elite, they took a collective decision in the face of ridicule and condescension to turn out in force.
The reality is that we -- all of us, not just the financial elite -- are the collective sleepwalkers.
"Collective Protest and Elite Colleges: The U.S. Anti-War Movement in the 1960s" Michael Biggs, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Oxford University.
France's political elite will have heaved a collective sigh of relief this week as MEPs stripped Marine Le Pen of her parliamentary immunity.
To remove the cancer of a corrupted, bloated organisation like Fifa, and cut through the institutionalised mendacity of a secretive, self-protective elite, requires individual courage and collective resolve.
