Heinrich Best, John Higley (eds.), The Palgrave handbook of political elites, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Best Heinrich, Ursula Hoffmann-Lange. 2018. “Challenged elites – elites as challengers. Toward a unified theory of representative elites”. Historical Social Research 43: 7–32.

Best Heinrich, György Lengyel, Luca Verzichelli. (eds.). 2012. The Europe of elites. A study into the Europeannes of Europe’s political and economic elites. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Best Heinrich, John Higley (eds.). 2010. Democratic elitism: New theoretical and comparative perspectives. Leiden–Boston: Brill.

Burton Michael G., John Higley. 1987. “Elite settlements”. American Sociological Review 52(3): 295–307.

Higley John. 2016. The endangered West. Myopic elites and fragile social orders in threatening world. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers.

Higley John, Michael G. Burton. 2006. Elite foundations of liberal democracy. Lanham: Rowman, & Littlefield.

Historical Social Research. 2018. Special issue: “Challenged elites – elites as challengers” 43(4), H. Best, U. Hoffmann-Lange, H.-D. Klingemann, P. Rutland (eds.).

Historical Social Research. 2016. Special issue: “National political elites and the crisis of European integration: Country studies 2007–2014” 41(4), L. Vogel, J. Rodríguez-Teruel (eds.).

Historical Social Research. 2012. Special issue: “Political and functional elites in post-socialist transformation: Central and East Europe since 1989/90” 37(2), H. Best, R. Gebauer, A. Salheiser (eds.).

Historical Social Research. 2012. Special issue: “Elite foundations of social theory and politics” 37(1), J. Pakulski, H. Best, V. Christmas-Best, U. Hoffmann-Lange (eds.).

Pakulski Jan, Andreas Körösényi. 2013. Toward leader democracy. London–New York–Dehli: Anthem Press.

Putnam Robert D. 1976. The comparative study of political elites. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice- Hall.

Semenova Elena, Michael Edinger, Heinrich Best (eds.). 2014. Parliamentary elites in Central

and Eastern Europe. London: Routledge.