Grounded in the basic needs mini-theory (Deci & Ryan, 2000), this study examined the interplay among perceptions of the social environment manifested in vocational dance schools, basic need satisfaction, and indices of elite dancers' well- and ill-being. The hypothesized mediating role of need satisfaction was also tested. Dancers (N = 392) completed a questionnaire tapping the targeted variabl...

This article takes the existence of power networks of local elites as a social fact of fundamental importance and the starting point for the study of patronage in the governance of the coastal waters of East Kalimantan. We address the question of how to capture the elites for project implementation, rather than assuming the inevitability of elite capture of project funds. We analyze the multipl...

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the factors affecting an elite athlete’s transition from the sports environment, and identify opportunities for interventions to facilitate a positive transition into post-sports life. Articles were identified through a systematic keyword and database search and were examined using the components of Schlossberg’s Model of Human Adaptation to Tran...

In social sciences literature, numerous attempts have been made to capture the political essence and features of Hungary’s ‘illiberal’ regime but few were aimed at analyzing specific public policy fields in the illiberal democracy. This paper analyses the cultural policy of the Orbán regime, focusing on the role of ideology. A qualitative case study based on document analysis looks at the legit...

We present an argument for changes in the franchise in which an elite split along economic interests use the suffrage to influence implemented policies. Through the influence of these policies on the character of industrialization, we analyze the effects of franchise changes on economic growth. We identify in the social structure of society an explanation for the connection between enfranchisem...

Why are some ethnic identities become of focus of activist campaigns, while others are not? I argue that identity mobilization is non-linearly related to group socioeconomic status, since very poor groups do not have an educated elite to participate in activism, while in very rich groups this elite exists but its members are so wealthy that they have no need to use explicit identity rhetoric to...

1536-1268/02/$17.00 © 2002 IEEE A s an example of an early application that puts pervasive computing technologies directly in the service of improved quality of life for the elderly and that is “gracefully integrated with human users,” this inaugural installment looks at the assisted living complex constructed by Elite Care (www. elite-care.com). By building pervasive computing into the environ...

In response to failures of central planning, the Chinese government has experimented not only with free-market trade zones, but with allowing non-profit foundations to operate in a decentralized fashion. A network study shows how these foundations have connected together by sharing board members, in a structural parallel to what is seen in corporations in the United States. This board interlock...

Exempted from the application of reservation policies at first, the Indian Institutes of Technologytend to be perceived as institutions that produce a meritocratic elite, freed from thecontingencies related to caste and their political exploitation. However, some former students,products of this institution that was marked by a very strong social homogeneity when it wasfirst con...

Recent studies of the formation of collaborative networks typically identify patterns of cohesive social structures and their benefits for economic performance. Using systematic quantitative evidence on 3,700 corporate foundings and about 8,900 members of the corporate elite in late tsarist Russia (c.1869-1900), our study departs from, and thereby extends this previous research in two important...