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LIVES, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
Br J Sociol. 2025 Jun;76(3):663-673. doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.13203. Epub 2025 Mar 27.
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder comparative analysis. The World Elite Database (WED) addresses this dual challenge, by generating, based on a consistent definition, standardised data for 16 countries. This research note introduces WED, its construction principles, and presents preliminary findings on how economic elites differ across countries.
那些占据经济权力显赫地位的人的战略、决策和信念,会对大型企业及其主导的市场、大量经济资源以及游戏规则产生影响。然而,精英社会学面临双重挑战:对于什么可被视为经济权力地位存在不同的概念化理解,以及国际上信息来源不兼容,这阻碍了比较分析。世界精英数据库(WED)通过基于一致定义为16个国家生成标准化数据,应对了这一双重挑战。本研究报告介绍了WED及其构建原则,并展示了关于各国经济精英如何不同的初步研究结果。