Download or read book Classes and Elites in Democracy and Democratization written by Eva Etzioni Halevy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of readings has been complied on the assumption that for an adequate explanation of the success and failure, the strengths and weaknesses, of democracy, it is necessary to resort to both class and elite theories and to strive for the future development of the extant beginnings of a synthesis between them. For this purpose, it presents the most central and intellectually outstanding readings that illustrate the manner in which the two theories have analyzed democracy, as well as democratization, in various parts of the world.