The Ruling Class (Elementi di scienza politica)
Gaetano Mosca — The Ruling Class (Elementi di scienza politica) (1939)Gaetano Mosca · 1939 · Book · ch. 2 (The Ruling Class), §1; discussion of the political formulaTheorySource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0608 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Elite theory · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“Gaetano Mosca held that in all societies there are two classes, a minority that rules and a majority that is ruled, and that the ruling minority prevails because it is organised and justifies itself through a political formula.”
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The Mind and Society (Trattato di sociologia generale)
The Power Elite
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
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