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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2009
A survey of the contributions of political science to the understanding of the Middle East and of Middle East studies to the development of political science shows that one of the most fruitful areas of cross-fertilization is in elite studies.1 It might be interesting to speculate on the reasons behind this: Are politics and society in the Mideast especially elitist, or is it simply an accident of research that one scholar who stumbled on a mine of elite data inspired his students to pursue similar types of analysis?2 Whatever the reason may be, another characteristic of Mideast elite studies that stands out is their single- polity focus. If some of the elite studies of the Muslim East have developed a diachronic dimension, none has undertaken multinational comparison.
page 495 note 1 See my ‘Political Science and Middle East Studies’ paper prepared for the MESA State of the Art Conference, Palo Alto, August 1973.Google Scholar
page 495 note 2 For a review article of basic works on elite politics see Rustow, Dankwart K., ‘The Study of Elites: Who's Who, When, and How’, World Politics, vol. 4 (07 1966), pp. 690–717. For a review article on recent works on elite politics in Africa and the Middle East, see my ‘The Study of Elite Circulation: Who's on First and What's He Doing There’,Google ScholarComparative Politics, vol. vi, 3 (April 1974).Google Scholar
page 497 note 1 Amis du Manifeste et de la Liberté, Union Démocratique du Manifeste Algerien.Google Scholar
page 497 note 2 Etoile Nord-Africaine, Parti du People Algerien, Mouvement du Triomphe des Libertés Democratiques, Front de Liberation Nationale.Google Scholar
page 497 note 3 Except that the figures generally correspond to the equation E = 47(n + I) where n is the number of major parties.Google Scholar
page 498 note 1 See Quandt, William B., Revolution and Political Leadership: Algeria 1954–1968 (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969).Google Scholar
page 501 note 1 Hermassi (1972), p. 10; see also pp. 216–17.Google Scholar
