“…Since the turn of the millennium alone there have been quite a number of publications dealing first of all with the analysis of European elites, although in single cases also the elites of non-European countries such as Japan (Colignon and Usui, 2003) and the United States (Domhoff, 2009) are discussed. There exist both compilations of smaller country studies, such as on the political elites of Southern Europe (de Almeida et al, 2002) or the economic elites of East Europe (Lane et al, 2007), and publications which, on the basis of the authors' own empirical surveys, deal with the elites of Germany (Hartmann, 2013), Denmark (Christiansen et al, 2001;Ellersgard et al, 2013), France, and Great Britain (McLean et al, 2006), Norway (Gulbrandsen et al, 2002;Hjellbrekke and Korsnes, 2009) or of all of Europe (Hartmann, 2010). Usually it is about the social profile of elites, i.e., their social recruitment, their educational and career paths and their connections to each other.…”