World Elite Database
The World Elite Database (WED) is a cooperative data and analysis project led by researchers on elite populations across the world.
We are an international consortium of scholars from Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Italy, France, Finland, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the UK and the USA. We work together to develop a new standardized data regime to study, and share data about elites.
Our aim is to solve the problem of comparability and heterogeneity in the study of national power structures, and to foster a cooperative community of scholars interested in studying elite populations systematically.
Events & news
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New WED Publication in Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Global Elites
The WED collective has published a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Global Elites, edited by María…
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Quiet and Loud Elites
A new article, based on WED data, studies the visibility of economic power in the UK. Mike Savage’s, Victoria Gronwald’s,…
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WED in the Media
The WED research note in the British Journal of Sociology has triggered a huge media response. We have been discussed…