The structural and historical context -- From dissension to coordination : the PLO leadership and the national elite in the occupied territories -- Mobilization under control : the political economy of steadfastness -- Engineering compliance : new modes of political entrepreneurship and the co-optation of contenders -- Seizing structural opportunities : the Islamist elite and the framing of authenticity discourse -- The politics of symbolic capital and the institutionalization of neopatrimonial power -- The second intifada and its impact on elite structures.