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The Ruling Class (Elementi di scienza politica)

Gaetano Mosca · McGraw-Hill · 1939

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Gaetano Mosca
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2026-09-01
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Translated by Hannah D. Kahn, edited by Arthur Livingston; Italian original 1896, enlarged 1923.

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TheoryGaetano 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.