1.   First, the new communications media have greatly expanded the means of information exchange between political elites.

2.   In any case, Weber is not very much concerned about the absence of popular control over the political elites.

3.   So long as political elites are capable of providing policy leadership, the roles and behaviour of public agency administrators are simple.

4.   The apparently untidy structure of the machinery of government, and its constant alteration, reflect the objectives of the political elites.

5.   The first of these was the connection between mining companies and the political elite.

6.   Well-informed, experienced political elites have made little or no progress solving any of these problems.

7.   Thus a political elite with PAC backing is created.

8.   PACs have helped to create a political elite of incumbents, whose power is secure with PAC backing.