ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Entrenched: Elite Capture and Social Mobility
New democracies often inherit entrenched political or economic elites who retain substantial influence over policymaking. This project studies a number of systematic and idiosyncratic shocks to such elites and examines whether these critical junctures affect the persistence and decline of their economic and political power. It is pertinent to economists and political scientists and contributes to ongoing debates regarding social mobility and elite capture. I propose to study these topics within the historical context of Prussia, where the landed nobility formed an entrenched elite wielding enormous power throughout the 19th century. In the 20th century, they faced substantial economic and…
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