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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Ifølge Landbrugsavisen er antallet af hekltidsgårdejere nu mindre end én promile af befolkningen. Vi nærmer os koncentration af jord som under feudalismen

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Så er vores nye bog kommet fra tryk. Den er på gaden 30. september...

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

This division line is also seen between sectors. Politicians are Greenlandic, Private Business leaders Danish. And on key demographics, where politicians have very different education, residence area and gender composition than other groups.

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Most importantly, the power elite network is fractured by country of origin. Those with Greenlandic schooling (in orange) occupy particular areas of the network, those without (in black) other areas.

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

This power elite has many of the same sectors as we have seen in our analysis of Denmark. However, politics (28 %) and state (18 % civil servants and 17 % from state owned corporations) are much stronger.

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

We identify a power elite of 123 individuals as the central circle in an extensive affiliation network data on 3412 positions held by a total 2052 individuals in 456 affiliations.

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Some context: Based on the recent American territorial ambitions, we decided to finally try to publish our work on formal elite networks in Greenland. How the Greenlandic power elite reacts to American overtures can change the geopolitical of the world.

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Hvad laver nogle magtforskere i @zetland.dk studie? Følg med fra på mandag... @sarahsteinitz.bsky.social

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Though our interviews, we then explore the technocratic mindset and - with the exception of union leaders - find a large convergence among the technocratic lodestars described above

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Adding to this, we find that most elites have worked in one of the 85 key technocratic career hubs, in particular those having a technocratic education, further strengthening their technocratic outlook

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

We find that around half of the 416 individuals in our analysis have taken a degree that installs some sort of technocratic ethos. In our interviews, lawyers pay almost no attention to their professional background whereas it is a strong identity for both politicial scientists and economists

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Vi har skrevet lidt om, hvorfor valget af Bjarne Corydon faktisk er et skridt mod en ekstremt teknokratisk tilgang til den dialog mellem borgere og politikere DR kunne facilitere...

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Vores arbejde med World Elite Database er omtalt i dagens udgave af Weekendavisen For at gøre det helt klart er det ikke os, der er Eliten fra CBS...

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Ville ønske jeg kunne skrive fiktion, der var lige så karikeret som virkeligheden adelsforeningen.dk/nobility/

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

6. On the methods. To map power structures, we have included different positions of economic power: (1) control over the largest corporations, (2) ownership of vast amounts of assets, and (3) ascendancy over the organisations involved in regulating the economy.

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

5. Adding to this, the type of skills elite have obtained through their education varies (but not always along the level fof credentials described above). Engineers and natural scientists still constitute a substantial part of economic elites in China, France or Finland.

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

4. The credentials also differ. In sic of the countries, at least around a fifth have a doctoral degree. However this is very rare, for instance in the Scandinavian countries

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

3. The degree of international recruitment and recruitment from the economic capital of the country and other key functional urban areas varies substantially. Economic elites in Argentina, Italy, Portugal and France are born in the countries largest urban centres.

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

2. When looking at the very apex of the economic elites, the lack of gender diversity becomes even stronger. However, the gender gap in WED is strongly correlated with the WEF Gender Gap Index.

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Some highlights: 1. Economic elites vary a lot. However, they are varieties of pale, stale and male. Here is the age distribution across gender. Note that in particular the US is very much a gerontocracy, also when it comes to economic elites

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

With our Advanced Mixed Methods class, we have played with Multiple correspondence analysis and created this neat little social space of Danish Cabinet members in 2025. Based on their delegated and charismatic capital, we find two dimensions: 1) Total capital and 2) Ideological versus Pragmatic

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Ved ikke hvorfor billedet gik i sort. prøver lige igen

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Det var IKKE en anden tid. Hvis vi havde lyttet til fx Verner Goldschmidt, kultursociologiens far i Danmark, for 50 år siden (Interviewet af Gretelise Holm) kunne det danske forhold til Grønland have været langt mindre præget af kolonialismen forbandelse

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Marx & Engels bliver ofte skældt ud for økonomisk determinisme, når de i Manifestet skriver: "Den moderne statsmagt er kun et udvalg, der varetager bourgeoisiklassens fællesanliggender.". Nu hvor lortet nærmer sig blæseren synes det at være en meget præcis beskrivelse af hvordan statsmagten agerer

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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.

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Finally at the office to share my collection of Danish Marxism and what we cared to translate

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Three really stimulating, intense days working on the World Elite Database with great colleagues from four continents

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

Getting ready for the very promising BJS Conference with this great crowd of scholars

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

Was playing with MCA in our Advanced Mixed Metods course. We collected data on the Danish government (available here: lnkd.in/drriB3qE) and studied it's social structure (code here:https://lnkd.in/d75uUjwP). A space structured by 1) Political capital 2) Policy professionals vs. local politicians

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

Sidder og sammenligner befolknings tillid til demokratiske institutioner (fra EVS, til venstre) med magtelitens. Tankevækkende at befolkningen stoler mest på de institutioner magteliten stoler mindst på, altså sociale medier og medierne. Bemærk også uddannelsessystemet!

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Sometimes your research turns out to well timed. One of the main ideological whips of the Danish Social Democrats, and Minister of Employment, is publishing a book next week called "The Land of Work", showing the infatuation with hard work currently at work within the Danish power elite.

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