It's the historic model of governance: elites have access to superior information and align their interests with the broader public; and everybody who works hard can become "an elite".
I also feared that our division was aiding a gradual slide into plutocracy — governance by the elite, the super wealthy.
A recent opinion poll shows that nearly 60% of Ukrainians support European integration.Now the biggest obstacle in the way of Ukraine's convergence with the EU is not Russia but Ukraine itself a country with no tradition of statehood but with chronic corruption, dysfunctional governance and a parasitic elite.
Their non-diversified, highly customized service offering, together with their small size, largely determines the governance characteristics of these elite firms.
Though chapter 12 addresses policies and concepts of community-based conservation, there is a rather limited engagement with the widespread issues around governance, financial accountability and elite capture associated with WMAs and other such interventions.
Nevertheless, the European democratic culture must prevail over the efforts of elites: its governance should lead to more egalitarian models than the free-market orthodoxy, and greater solidarity among member states.
The crowd reflected the vein that Khan has tapped – young, urban and mostly educated Pakistanis who have grown disillusioned by the chaotic politicking and inept governance of the traditional political elite.
But the billion-dollar scandal at Satyam Computer Services has exposed old-fashioned corruption: a patriarch willing to go to any length to keep control, a web of cozy relationships among members of a seemingly untouchable elite, and a governance system that failed to keep either in check.
For most of the past 2,000 years, China has practiced a kind of one-party rule: governance by a unified Confucian elite that was selected through public exams (the keju) and which claimed to represent — or genuinely represented — most, if not all, under heaven.
In the style of governance favoured by post-colonial elites, it is, in a certain sense, required of institutions that they do not work.
