Elites have been described both as the bulwarks of democracy and
its very antithesis. 'Political Elites', first published in 1969,
reviews the literature on the role of elites in politics. It deals
with both the 'classic' elite theorists - Mosca, Pareto, Michels,
Burnham and C. Wright Mills - and with many of the empirical and
theoretical works on elites by modern political scientists and
sociologists. It seeks to clarify the central terms of elite
discourse, some of which have entered the everyday political
vocabulary - 'elitism', 'power elite', 'establishment', 'elite
consensus'' , 'iron law of oligarchy' and 'mass'. It explores the
ways in which the descriptions of power relationships can subtly be
infiltrated by the values of the observers. For this ECPR Classics
edition Professor Parry has added an introduction reviewing
significant new developments in elite political science.
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