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Populists everywhere are no doubt celebrating the outcome as another clear rebuke to self-interested elites who have “rigged” their governments against the people.
Of course, in a world of abundance, one may hope that the class of elites will become ever larger.
“The French exception” is the product of an encounter between a peculiar political and intellectual history and the rejection of the elites currently in power.
So we do not need extractive elites or other evil forces to explain why technology does not diffuse.
In a region long inured to impunity among political and economic elites, this amounts to a tectonic shift.
These findings will surprise only those who buy into the narrative that the West is confronting a large-scale xenophobic revolt against the elites.
Elites must give up their privileges, and regulations on corporate governance must limit collusion between managers and civil servants or politicians.
After all, Iraq has few other elites to rely upon, much as Russia had no non-Communist elite after 1991.
Objections to the applicability of human-rights standards are all too frequently voiced by authoritarian rulers and power elites to rationalize violations that keep them in power.
Third, faced with chronic economic disorder and political instability, Egyptians increasingly lament the “hijacking” of the revolution, fueling mistrust of the country’s governing elites.
The longer Egypt’s current disarray persists, the more its political elites will lose the battle for the hearts and minds of a population whose basic aspirations are summed up by four well-founded demands: bread, dignity, social justice, and democracy.
In the past, a growing gap between what the country’s governing elites delivered and the population’s legitimate aspirations would have been addressed by imposing further repression.
Egypt’s political elites do not have unlimited time, and current economic trends are making the need to act increasingly urgent.
By contrast, seen from afar, in their new suits, you might think that Chinese economic elites are Japanese.
Chinese elites are convinced that time is working in their favor, and that it is only natural that China should regain its rank amongst the world leading powers, perhaps even emerging on top one day.
The gap between the respective qualities of China’s economic and scientific elites, on the one hand, and its ruling political elites, on the other, is simply too monumental – and still growing – for stability to be taken for granted.
Enlightened Japanese elites are fascinated by Franco-German reconciliation.
The reasoning of China’s elites is pragmatic: if the Chinese were reassured by the existence of a social–welfare state, they would probably save less and spend more, allowing the domestic market to take over from export-led growth.
Otherwise, and for very different reasons, a majority of Asian elites are awaiting the growing possibility of an Obama victory with some bewilderment and even apprehension.
For example, Japanese elites tend to favor continuity over change.
Indian elites reach the same conclusion for different reasons.
As long as EU membership remained only a goal, it had a disciplining effect on the region’s political elites.
Unfortunately, most Western elites failed to appreciate the conditions of success.
Instead, the benefits of privatization and other initiatives went largely to political and business elites.
The China Model is attractive not only to the country’s new coastal elites, but has global appeal.
As for the region itself, political elites will need to be motivated to pursue necessary reforms, rather than putting their own economic interests first.
What precisely those reforms should be, however, remains subject to heated debate among China’s elites, policymakers, and disadvantaged groups, as well as foreign stakeholders.
According to Sarkozy, “The virulence of the press and a portion of French elites against the United States reflects a certain envy of your brilliant success.”
Both countries also possess a fairly educated middle class and intelligentsia alongside more traditional elites.
The current crisis has exposed the original lacunae and widening cracks in the compact between Europe’s citizens and EU institutions, between Europe’s north and south, and between its peoples and its elites.
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