TY  - JOUR
TI  - Class Formation without Class Struggle: An Elite Conflict Theory of 
the Transition to Capitalism 
T2  - American Sociological Review
IS  - 3
KW  - capitalism
KW  - class
KW  - class conflict
KW  - elite
KW  - elite conflict model
AB  - An elite conflict model is compared to past work on elites and to a 
variety of Marxist explanations for the transition from feudalism to 
capitalism. Elites are defined by their control over organizational 
apparatuses for appropriating resources from non-elites. An elite in 
pursuit of its interests is constrained primarily by coexisting 
elites and secondarily by inter-class relations of production. The 
effects of elite and class conflict upon elite organizations and 
relations of production are traced. Conflict among feudal elites is 
identified as the primary determinant of the form and extent of 
social structural change in three historical cases: Florence during 
the Renaissance, England in the century leading up to the 1640 
Revolution, and France from the sixteenth through eighteenth 
centuries. 
AU  - Lachmann, Richard
UR  - http://ecsocman.hse.ru/text/19010419/
PY  - 1990
SP  - 398-414
M2  - 398
VL  - 55
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