Chapter 4 Towards elite agency constrained and enabled by power and institutions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments
3. Contents VII
4. Preface The conceptual and exploratory nature of this inquiry 1
5. Part I: Propositions
6. Part I: Propositions 9
7. Chapter 1 Towards a logic of elite agency 13
8. Chapter 2 Towards a value creation and appropriation logic for elite business models 46
9. Chapter 3 Towards a logic for the elite system 106
10. Part II: Integration
11. Part II: Integration 165
12. Chapter 4 Towards elite agency constrained and enabled by power and institutions 169
13. Chapter 5 Towards the elite theory of economic development (ETED) 218
14. Part III: Implications
15. Part III: Implications 291
16. Chapter 6 Towards measurements for an elite theory of economic development 295
17. Chapter 7 The implications of the ETED for incentive systems 355
18. Chapter 8 Leadership, ethics, and non-elites 466
19. Epilogue Judgments atop hierarchies: Testing the language, logic, propositions, and conceptual elements of the elite theory 567
20. Appendices
21. Appendix 1: Theory development support tables 641
22. Appendix 2: Theoretical building blocks 669
23. Appendix 3: Supplementary tables for the ETED’s SVC measurements 715
24. Appendix 4: Supplementary tables for the ETED’s conceptual elements 741
25. Appendix 5: Supplementary figures 749
26. Bibliography
27. Index