Caroline Ahler Christesen
Biographic Data
| ID | 388148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Ahler Christesen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline Ahler |
| FAMILY NAME | Christesen |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTESEN C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Social Sciences and Business Roskilde University Roskilde Denmark <!--Query ID="q2" Text="AUTHOR: Please note that more than 30 author names are available. Kindly check and provide group name if possible."--> |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-0079-9336 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Elites in a high-trust society
While the legitimacy of key institutions of liberal democracy is under threat, we know little about differences in the trust placed in these institutions by elites and the population. We explore differences in trust between elites and the population (i.e. the elite–population trust gap) by combining a survey of 75 members of the power elite with data from the European Values Study in Denmark. Using principal component analysis, we construct a thr…
What Can the Environmental State Actually Do? Three Critiques and Their Limits
Three critiques of the environmental state shape the discussion of its possibilities and limits. First, states are deemed structurally unable to mitigate climate change due to the “glass ceiling” of systemic transformations. Second, governments play contradictory roles in sustainability transitions because of the manifold societal demands they are facing in an age of overlapping crises. Finally, state bureaucracies and agencies are often branded …
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 resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
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 resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
What Can the Environmental State Actually Do? Three Critiques and Their Limits
Three critiques of the environmental state shape the discussion of its possibilities and limits. First, states are deemed structurally unable to mitigate climate change due to the “glass ceiling” of systemic transformations. Second, governments play contradictory roles in sustainability transitions because of the manifold societal demands they are facing in an age of overlapping crises. Finally, state bureaucracies and agencies are often branded …
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 resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
Elites in a high-trust society
While the legitimacy of key institutions of liberal democracy is under threat, we know little about differences in the trust placed in these institutions by elites and the population. We explore differences in trust between elites and the population (i.e. the elite–population trust gap) by combining a survey of 75 members of the power elite with data from the European Values Study in Denmark. Using principal component analysis, we construct a thr…
Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Bureaucracy (1 work) · Coastal and Marine Management (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Database (1 work) · Dominance (genetics (1 work) · Dual (grammatical number (1 work) · Dual purpose (1 work) · Economic analysis (1 work)