Current Research on Elites

Conveners

Jean-Pascal Daloz

Date: Wednesday 20 May 2009 - 10:00

Place: Maison Française d'Oxford

10.00am Welcome

10.30 - 12.30

Katharine Throssell (MFO, Oxford)

‘Learning to be French: Socialisation and National Identity'

Annabelle Allouch (MFO, Oxford)

‘Socialisation for Excellence: Broadening access to elite education in France and England'

Lunch

14.00 - 16.00

Natacha Gally (MFO, Oxford)

‘Top Civil Servants at School: The diffusion of competency frameworks in Great-Britain'

John Higley

(University of Texas at Austin; Chair of the RC on Political Elites of the International Political Science Association)

‘Problems in Elite Theory and Analysis'