«The study found that
while economic elites» and business groups» preferences often result in policy changes, public opinion has virtually no influence on policy outcomes.
Not exact matches
While the regime seems likely to remain stable in 2018, the struggle for power and assets among the political
elite will continue to escalate, and
economic and foreign policy challenges create long - term uncertainty.
While the
elites are worrying about
economic crises and indifferent to the plight of the people, the news of the coming «Savior» is given directly to the lowest of the low in the social pecking order, the shepherds.
As the gap between the rich and the rest of the population grows,
economic policy increasingly caters to the interests of the
elite,
while public services for the population at large - above all, public education - are starved of resources.
While homemakers were ceding power in their own domains to experts, the feminist revolution, he charges, was «hijacked by new
economic and social
elites.»
They conclude that «
economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy,
while mass - based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence.»
«
While many of the
economic elites on the North Shore have been celebrating the development that's happening here, calling it the «North Shore renaissance,» on the streets, people are grieving,» Marius said.
While media coverage exerts an important influence, this coverage is itself largely a function of
elite cues and
economic factors.
The new
economic policies undermined the rural Sunni poor
while expanding the regime - linked private sector through a web of corrupt, government - backed joint ventures that empowered the Alawite military
elite and a parasitic business aristocracy.