Post-war organization theory develops the democratic elitist account to accord a much more substantive policy role to administrative elites.

Elected governments and administrative elites are passive functionaries who simply facilitate the bargains struck by the functional elites.

Instrumentalists regard administrative elites as simply functionaries who make policy according to the rational interests of the capitalist class.

Space programmes also highlight contrasts in administrative and managerial elites.

While the embassy was small, its staff represented Turkey's administrative and cultural elite, all graduates of Galatasaray High School.

There is also a much closer interconnection than in Britain between political elites and administrative elites within the state.

In all, some 800 members of Russia's administrative elite were sent to prison in 2009.

Social, intellectual and administrative elites were closely knit.

Northern political, administrative, and commercial elites were reluctant to recognize that they now had to deal with Mogadishu.

It is about transforming the European project from a thing of administrative elites into a res publica.