Abstract
A critical evaluation of the new elite paradigm proposed by Field, Higley and Burton suggests that it is beset by a number ofproblems. Two issues are explored: the relationship between consensual unity among elites and political stability, and the role of elite settlements and two-step transformations as routes to consensual unity of elites. I argue that the proponents of the new paradigm fail to establish the priority of political explanations over social structural explanations for global patterns of political stability. They also fail to develop theories of wide explanatory power from the central contentions of classical elite theory.
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