Political PartiesSimon and Schuster, 1968 - 380 pages In this book Michels analyzes the tendencies that oppose the realization of democracy, and claims that these tendencies can be classified in three ways: dependence upon the nature of the individual; dependence upon the nature of the political structure; and dependence upon the nature of organization. This edition, described by Morris Janowitz as a "classic of modern social science" and by Melvin Tumin as "the beginning of a tradition", offers a landmark study in political science. Following its original publication in 1910, the study and analysis of political parties was established as a new branch of science. Political Parties continues to be a foundation work in the literature and is a necessary addition to the libraries of contemporary political scientists, sociologists, and historians. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
Contents
1 | 16 |
Democratic Aristocracy and Aristocratic Democracy | 43 |
The Ethical Embellishment of Social Struggles | 52 |
A Technical and Administrative Causes of Leadership | 61 |
The Modern Democratic Party as a Fighting Party | 78 |
The Need for Leadership felt by the Mass | 85 |
The Political Gratitude of the Masses | 92 |
Accessory Qualities Requisite to Leadership | 98 |
Identification of the Party with the Leader Le Parti | 220 |
Introductory The Class Struggle and Its Disintegrat | 227 |
Analysis of the Bourgeois Elements in Socialist | 238 |
Social Changes Resulting from Organization | 254 |
The Need for the Differentiation of the Working | 271 |
Labor Leaders of Proletarian Origin | 277 |
Intellectuals and the Need for Them in the Working | 293 |
Part FiveAttempts to Restrict the Influence of the Leaders | 305 |
Accessory Peculiarities of the Masses | 105 |
The Stability of Leadership | 117 |
The Financial Power of the Leaders and of the Party | 129 |
The Leaders and the Press | 149 |
The Struggle Between the Leaders and the Masses | 167 |
Bureaucracy Centralizing and Decentralizing Tend | 188 |
Part ThreeThe Exercise of Power and Its Psychological | 203 |
Bonapartist Ideology | 212 |
The Postulate of Renunciation | 312 |
Anarchism as Prophylactic | 325 |
The Oligarchical Tendencies | 331 |
Democracy and the Iron Law of Oligarchy | 342 |
PartyLife in WarTime | 357 |
Final Considerations | 364 |
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