Challenge the fourth: The elites and the general public

Abstract

The chapter tries to answer how the two fundamental societal actors - elites and general public - understand problems of their future or their mutual relations (especially their cohesion). The chapter analyzes attitudes of these two actors to the possibilities to solve important questions of the Czech society future development.

As crucial is seen the question of sustainability of the democratic relations between elite and general public.

Keywords

• elites
• general
• public
• cohesion
• modernization
• democracy