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The Ruling Class
book by Mosca
Also known as: “Elementi di scienza politica”
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- In Gaetano Mosca
…Parliamentary Government”) was followed by The Ruling Class (originally published in Italian, 1896). In these and other writings, but especially in The Ruling Class, he asserted—contrary to theories of majority rule—that societies are necessarily governed by minorities: by military, priestly, or hereditary oligarchies or by aristocracies of wealth or of…
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