Political Parties¶
Michels, R. (1911). Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy. Free Press.
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- Iron law of oligarchy
- The iron law of oligarchy is the sociological thesis, advanced by Robert Michels in his 1911 study of the German Social Democratic Party and European trade unions, that large democratic organisations inevitably develop oligarchic leadership structures: a small professional stratum comes to dominate decision-making, displacing the broad participatory intent the organisation was founded on, regardless of that founding intent and regardless of the organisation's formal commitment to internal democracy
This sourceMichels's founding statement of the thesis, whose synthesis chapter is titled 'Democracy and the Iron Law of Oligarchy' and whose preface concludes that democracy 'necessarily contains an oligarchical nucleus'.
- The iron law of oligarchy is the sociological thesis, advanced by Robert Michels in his 1911 study of the German Social Democratic Party and European trade unions, that large democratic organisations inevitably develop oligarchic leadership structures: a small professional stratum comes to dominate decision-making, displacing the broad participatory intent the organisation was founded on, regardless of that founding intent and regardless of the organisation's formal commitment to internal democracy
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