Varieties of economic elites? Preliminary results from the World Elite Database (WED)

Felix Bühlmann, Caroline Ahler Christesen, Bruno Cousin, François Denord, Christoph Houman Ellersgaard, Lagneau‐Ymonet, Paul, Anton Grau Larsen, Mike Savage, Sylvain Thine, Kevin Young, Pedro Araujo, Paola Arrigoni, Jorge Atria, Pierre Benz, Johanna Behr, Maria do Carmo Botelho, Asif Butt, Pedro Casanova, Clemente‐Casinhas, Luís, Ana Castellani, Fabio Cescon, Joselle Dagnes, Hanna Debska, Delval, Anne‐Sophie, Vitalina Dragun, Andreia Egas, Kajsa Emilsson, Xiaoguang Fan, Fan Fu, Julia Gentile, Orlando Gomes, Victoria Gronwald, Mariana Heredia, Johannes Hjellbrekke, Jorge Honório, Jie Huang, Johnathan Inkley, Håkan Johansson, Ilkka Koiranen, Aki Koivula, Hanna Kuusela, Gabriel Levita, Chao Ling, Peng Lu, Michael Lukas, Jacob Lunding, Mina Mahmoudzadeh, Sean McQuade, María Luisa Méndez, Nuno Nunes, Shay O'Brien, Gabriel Otero, Marta Pagnini, Alejandro Pelfini, Jéssica Pereira, Catalina Roa, Thierry Rossier, Marte Lund Saga, Dulce Santana, Christian Schneickert, Elisabeth Schimpfössl, François Schoenberger, Izaura Solipa, Łukasz Trembaczowski, Maren Toft, Sofia Vale, Pedro Vasconcelos, Jorge Quesada Velazco, Tomasz Warczok and Xinguo Yu

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Abstract: The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder comparative analysis. The World Elite Database (WED) addresses this dual challenge, by generating, based on a consistent definition, standardised data for 16 countries. This research note introduces WED, its construction principles, and presents preliminary findings on how economic elites differ across countries.

JEL-codes: J1 J50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2025-03-27
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Published in British Journal of Sociology, 27, March, 2025. ISSN: 0007-1315

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