Peter Turchin, "How is social power structured in Ukraine?"
And who are the primary power-holders?
Following Michael Mann, we can classify the sources of social power into 4 categories:
1. coercion/military,
2. economic,
3. administrative/political, and
4. ideological/religion.
Ruling elites in different societies tend to specialize in different sources of power:
- Egypt is traditionally ruled by generals (from Nasser to Sadat and Mubarak, and now Al-Sisi),
- China and France are dominated by bureaucracies,
- the United States – by economic elites (see Bill Domhoff’s Who Rules America?), and
- Iran by ideological elites (the ayatollahs have the final say).
And Ukraine? Without doubt, it’s the economic elites.
( Collapse )
Following Michael Mann, we can classify the sources of social power into 4 categories:
1. coercion/military,
2. economic,
3. administrative/political, and
4. ideological/religion.
Ruling elites in different societies tend to specialize in different sources of power:
- Egypt is traditionally ruled by generals (from Nasser to Sadat and Mubarak, and now Al-Sisi),
- China and France are dominated by bureaucracies,
- the United States – by economic elites (see Bill Domhoff’s Who Rules America?), and
- Iran by ideological elites (the ayatollahs have the final say).
And Ukraine? Without doubt, it’s the economic elites.
( Collapse )