Duvalier enjoyed significant support among Haiti's majority black rural population who saw in him a champion of their claims against the historically dominant mulatto élite.

The dominant individual could be a clan leader, eldest, the head of a family, a patriarchal figure or dominant elite.

Radical elite theory's machine model presupposes that both party and state organizations are effectively controlled by socially dominant elites.

It is not a separate corporate body distinct from the dominant social elites.

The traditionally dominant Spanish-descended elite gained far more than indigenous peoples and those of mixed descent.

The Greek population of the cities who formed the dominant elite were reinforced by emigration from Greece.

Islam as a religion therefore became a discourse of the politically dominant elite, i.e.; male society.

The second situation may be one in which a dominant elite oppresses and exploits the masses.

Political exclusion of the majority often leads to widespread popular resentment towards the dominant elite.

In pre-Roman times the Dumnonii had a mostly subsistence economy with no dominant elites, and many individual farms.