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Power Elites and the Limits of Representation
Review of Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite by Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman (Harvard University Press, 2024) It is easy to forget that the sociologist Michael Young was making a mild joke when back in 1958 he coined the term “ …