Marte Lund Saga

Interessant hypotese. Ut fra de empiriske analysene i denne artikkelen kan jeg ikke si noe spesifikt om det, men mener det er rimelig å tenke at mer økonomisk ulikhet også skaper mer politisk ulikhet i en eller annen form. Det er gjerne ikke "vanlige folk" som donerer penger til partier f.eks

De rikeste rykker fra Ulikheten i Norge stiger, viser en rapport. – De rikeste blir stadig rikere, og de eier mer. På en måte vi ikke er så vant til å snakke om i Norge, sier sosiolog.

Formue blir stadig mer skjevfordelt og betydningen av klassebakgrunn for hvem det er som eier mest øker. Snakket med NRK om formuesulikhet og bl.a. arbeidene til @norawaitkus.bsky.social & @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social og min forskning med Hansen @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social
www.nrk.no/norge/de-rik...

In other words: Although companies are the “donating unit”, the owners and directors are the political actors.

5. Based on the above point, I argue that we cannot only investigate political activity among let’s say the top 500 companies but follow the individuals in the capitalist class and assess their political activity – through whichever companies they might direct or own.

4. When wealthy owners are included, we can account for about 73% of all corporate donations to political parties. The donations often do not come from the big companies they owe their wealth to, but often smaller holding companies outside of the inner circle.

3. I challenge the often implicit assumption that economic power is concentrated only in the hands of corporate managers and directors. While wealthy owners are invisible in institutionalized policymaking, the inner circle and wealthy owners converge in support towards rightwing political parties.

2. Based on the above finding, I argue that we might have to reconsider the types of conclusions we can draw regarding the political consequences of the ‘fracturing of corporate networks’.

1. The inner circle is more likely than other corporate officers to engage in all forms of political activity measured. I find this increased likelihood of political activity for the inner circle despite a sparsely connected network.

The politics of the Norwegian capitalist class: the inner circle and wealthy owners Abstract. This paper investigates the political activities of different segments within the capitalist class, comparing an inner circle of interlocked dire

My article about the political activity of the inner circle and wealthy owners is out in @sfjournal.bsky.social! You can read it here: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Some highlights in the thread.

A new who’s who of the global elites | Opinion They dominate the countries that account for more than half of global GDP — but who are they?

A new who’s who of the global elites | Opinion

https://www.ft.com/content/ff0af5e7-60eb-4cc9-aebd-da6fbc94f8c8

WED We are an international consortium of scholars from Chile, China, Denmark, Italy, France, Finland, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA.

For those interested, we have a website as well: worldelitedatabase.org

Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED) The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic re...

So happy to be a part of the World Elite Database project. We now have our first preliminary results from 16 countries published in @bjsociology.bsky.social! As it turns out, economic elites differ across countries on a wide range of factors.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

No doubt about who is winning in the current Danish Economy.

This is the growth in wealth for the 100 richest Danes the last 11 years.