The Structure of an Elite: the Advisory Structure of the U.S. Public Health Service

Daniel Greenberg has flatly asserted the existence of an elite within the US Government's science advisory system.' This paper discusses a search for empirical correlates demonstrating (or denying) the existence of an elite in terms of the movementt of persons wi(thin one -advisory structure, the US Public Health Service (PHS). Rupert Wilkinson has defined an elite as 'a distinctive group holding high status in its community and knit together by a strong group feeling, ethos, and style'.2 T'hat group feeling must be created by common