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Gaetano Mosca

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Italian political scientist and journalist (1858–1941)

Person · Open Library

Born
1858
Died
1941
Works
47

Top works

  • ... The development of the representative system in our times
  • Sulla libertà della stampa
  • Il Principe di Machiavelli
  • Per aver più pane, cause e rimedi della crisi alimentare
  • Su le comunicazioni del Governo

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Total plays
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Quotes

  • One should note, as an example, that in the course of the nineteenth century England adopted peacefully and without violent shocks almost all the basic civil and political reforms that France paid so heavily to achieve through the great Revolution. Undeniably, the great advantage of England lay in the greater energy, the greater practical wisdom, the better political training, that her ruling class possessed down to the very end of the past century.
  • [W]hen the class that monopolizes wealth and arms embodies its power in a centralized bureaucracy and an irresistible standing army, we get a despotism in its worst form – namely, a barbarous and primitive system of government that has the instruments of an advanced civilization at its disposal, a yoke of iron which is applied by rough and reckless hands and which is very hard to break, since it has been steeled and tempered by practical artisans.

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Key facts

Constituency
Caccamo
Born
( 1858-04-01 ) 1 April 1858, Palermo , Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Died
8 November 1941 (1941-11-08) (aged 83), Rome , Italy
Party
Historical Right
Alma mater
University of Palermo
Profession
Teacher , journalist
Era
20th-century philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Italian school of elitism
Main interests
Politics , economics , sociology
Notable ideas
Political class , political formula (a set of doctrines propagated by the ruling elites), elite theory

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Encyclopedic overview

Gaetano Mosca COSML COCI SoK ( Italian: [ɡaeˈtaːno ˈmoska]; 1 April 1858 – 8 November 1941) was an Italian political scientist, journalist and public servant. He is credited with developing the elite theory and the doctrine of the political class and is one of the three members constituting the Italian school of elitism together with Vilfredo Pareto and Robert Michels.

Life

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