Union Democracy

Lipset, S. M., & Trow. (1956). Union Democracy: The Internal Politics of the International Typographical Union. Free Press.

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Book

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Review or monograph

Year

1956

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• Iron law of oligarchy
  • The "iron" in the law was Michels's claim of near-inevitability, though the empirical literature has since documented partial counter-cases where strong rotation rules, sunset clauses, or sustained factional competition slowed oligarchic crystallisation — qualifying the determinism without overturning the central tendency

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