<"Ollion deftly mobilizes a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods to show how, in spite of this striking renewal of personnel, an institutionalized <"waiting line>" continued to regulate access to the levers of power. The demonstration is brilliant and essential, with implications for the study of politics everywhere.>"
Marion Fourcade, UC Berkeley
Étienne Ollion is a CNRS Research Director and Professor of Sociology at l'École Polytechnique.