“…Following Nigeria’s independence from Britain in 1960, Christian-Muslim tensions became manifest in regional and religious conflicts over the expansion of sharia, in fierce competition among political elites for state power, and in the rise of Boko Haram…”

“…Parallel to these opportunities are an equal number of challenges: a potential increase in low quality or rogue providers, a lack of recognition of foreign qualifications by domestic employers or education institutions, along with elitism and the tensions it creates. This book casts light on these opportunities and challenges, especially for developing countries willing to leverage cross-border higher education as a tool for development. …”

“…In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes from a tool used by elites to control resources and establish their power bases to a symbol of local identity and a means of conveying complex information and ideas. …”

“…Tantôt les politiques se réclament du « peuple » pour légitimer leur action, tantôt les « élites » disqualifient les productions et les usages « populaires ». …”

“…La dequalificazione del lavoro, la spaccatura nelle famiglie, la sfiducia nei media e nelle élites in generale, la diffusa sensazione di essere disprezzati, la sfiducia nei confronti dei responsabili politici, il profondo consumismo, la crisi di rappresentatività politica hanno fatto massa critica e alimentano un disagio che supera la congiuntura…”
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“…There has been a tendency to assume that these reforms would obviously be beneficial, but Alfred's elites were not to know that in advance. What motivated them to do as their king bid them?…”

“…Saaler shows how the elites of the modern Japanese nation-state went about constructing an iconography of national heroes to serve their agenda of instilling national (and nationalist) thinking into the masses. …”

“…Drawing on archival sources in Mexico, Colombia, and Uruguay, Sanders traces the circulation of political discourse and democratic practice among urban elites, rural peasants, European immigrants, slaves, and freed blacks to show how and why ideas of liberty, democracy, and universalism gained widespread purchase across the region, mobilizing political consciousness and solidarity among diverse constituencies. …”

“…Further chapters examine important themes that cut across these schools, including virtue and happiness, friendship, elitism, impartiality, and the relationship between ancient eudaimonism and modern morality. …”

“…As of now, the era's nuclear tensions have been addressed by scholars mostly from the standpoint of security studies, focused on the geo-strategic deliberations of political elites and at the level of state policy. Yet nuclear anxieties, as the essays in this volume document, were so pervasive that they profoundly shaped the era's culture, its habits of mind, and its politics, far beyond the domain of policy…”
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“…En la Italia de mediados del siglo XVI, cuando el crecimiento de las señorías, la pérdida de libertades políticas y civiles, el aumento de la dominación extranjera y la consolidación del poder eclesiástico, habían socabado la confianza de las élites en los "estudia humanitatis" para comprender y guiar el mundo, la pregunta por la historia como tarea política y cognitiva resurge con fuerza en Venecia y su "hinterland" paduano. …”

“…It explores the dynamic relationship between elites and the people which is shaped by constructions of self-representation and representative claims. …”

“…Y ello a través de un pormenorizado estudio tanto del proceso normativo que la Corona utilizó, como de la lucha política por el poder de las elites y oligarquías urbanas que aplicaron el nuevo proyecto de régimen municipal. …”
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“…Les bonifications françaises du XVIIe siècle montrent l’importance des liens entre les élites politiques françaises et les élites commerçantes néerlandaises. …”

“…Le petit peuple est le mal-aimé de l'histoire, soit que l'historiographie lui préfère les élites à qui profite leur propre discours, soit qu'elle le pousse en ses marges jusqu'à donner à ce très grand nombre la figure de l'exclu, soit qu'elle le qualifie de pauvre pour en faire un intermédiaire privilégié entre Dieu et les hommes. …”

“…Starting point is that the world, at the beginning of the new millennium, faces a multi-dimensional crisis (economic, ecological, social, cultural and political) which is caused by the concentration of power in the hands of various elites, as a result of the establishment, in the last couple of centuries, of the system of market economy, representative democracy and the related forms of hierarchical structure. …”
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“…From the Inclusive Democracy perspective the world is in a multidimensional crisis, caused by the concentration of power in the hands of various elites, as a result of the establishment of the economic system of market/growth economy, its political complement in the form of representative democracy, and the related forms of hierarchical structures. …”
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“…Para comprenderlo es preciso repasar los mitos de la construcción nacional, el papel de la religión, el carácter de sus élites y la peculiar parálisis de los defensores de la Constitución…”

“…From the Inclusive Democracy perspective the world is in a multidimensional crisis, caused by the concentration of power in the hands of various elites, as a result of the establishment of the economic system of market/growth economy, its political complement in the form of representative democracy, and the related forms of hierarchical structures. …”
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