New Research from Human Security Lab on Inequality Among Global Elites

New work by UMass political economist Professor Kevin Young and co-authors Seth Goldman, Brendan O’Connor, and Tuugi Chuluun was published in the journal Global Elites. The article, “How white is the global elite? An analysis of race, gender and network structure,” examines the diversity of global elites among board members of large corporations, think tanks, international organizations and transnational policy planning groups, providing the first descriptive picture of global elite networks in terms of race and gender. They also test the ‘core-periphery’ hypothesis, finding that non-whites and women decline in representation closer to the core, while white men are the only group that increase in representation at the core of elite networks.