Elite Theory: Gaetano Mosca and Vilfredo Pareto

I outline some of the core ideas of elite theory.

Sources:

Gaetano Mosca, The Ruling Class, ed. Arthur Livingstone, trans. Hannah D. Khan (1923; New York: McGraw Hill, 1939).

Vilfredo Pareto, Compendium of General Sociology [Abridged version of The Mind and Society] , ed. Elisabeth Abbott, trans. Guilo Farina (1935; Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1980).

James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom (London: Putnam, 1943).

George Orwell, ‘Review of The Machiavellians by James Burnham’, in Essays (New York: Everyman’s Library, 2002).

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