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This stirring analytical magnum opus and frank political testament about the limits on egalitarian social change casts a wide and deep historical net in arguing that elites (individuals and small groups with major decisional power) are inescapable, though they are not smarter or better, nor morally superior, to anyone else. It then reaches stark conclusions about the dangers of social disruption in the West in coming decades. In the Epilogue the book holds out the possibility of gradually improved societies, but it reaches this conclusion by a very different route than is followed by most scholars, including me, which makes Higley's commitment to the intellectual craft and his measured tone all the more honorable and admirable. <em>The Endangered West</em> is a focused, concise, and all-encompassing achievement. </p> --G. William Domhoff, University of California, Santa Cruz</p>

This stirring analytical magnum opus and frank political testament about the limits on egalitarian social change casts a wide and deep historical net in arguing that elites (individuals and small groups with major decisional power) are inescapable, though they are not smarter or better, nor morally superior, to anyone else. It then reaches stark conclusions about the dangers of social disruption in the West in coming decades. In the Epilogue the book holds out the possibility of gradually improved societies, but it reaches this conclusion by a very different route than is followed by most scholars, including me, which makes Higley's commitment to the intellectual craft and his measured tone all the more honorable and admirable. The Endangered West is a focused, concise, and all-encompassing achievement. --G. William Domhoff, University of California, Santa Cruz -This stirring analytical magnum opus and frank political testament about the limits on egalitarian social change casts a wide and deep historical net in arguing that -elites- (individuals and small groups with major decisional power) are inescapable, though they are not -smarter or better,- nor morally superior, to anyone else. It then reaches stark conclusions about the dangers of social disruption in the West in coming decades. In the Epilogue the book holds out the possibility of gradually improved societies, but it reaches this conclusion by a very different route than is followed by most scholars, including me, which makes Higley's commitment to the intellectual craft and his measured tone all the more honorable and admirable. The Endangered West is a focused, concise, and all-encompassing achievement.- --G. William Domhoff, University of California, Santa Cruz

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John Higley is professor emeritus of government and sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, USA where he was chair of the Department of Government. He also chaired the Research Committee on Political Elites of the International Political Science Association.

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