Title: Classes and elites in democracy and democratization : a collection of readings /
Authors: Etzioni-Halevy, Eva.
Publisher: Garland,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Social classes; Elite (Social sciences); Democracy; Democratization.
Contents: Ruling class, proletariat and bourgeois democracy / selections from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- Intellectuals and the hegemony of the dominant class in modern western democracies / selections from the work of Antonio Gramsci -- Repressive tolerance in contemporary democracy / selections from the work of Herbert Marcuse -- The reproduction of working-class exploitation in capitalist democracies / selections from the work of Louis Althusser -- The democratic route to modern society / selections from the work fo Barrington Moore -- Some social requisites of democracy / Seymour Martin Lipset -- The governing elite in present-day democracy / selections from the work of Vilfredo Pareto -- The ruling class in representative democracy / selections from the work of Gaetano Mosca -- Democracy and the countervailing powers of bureaucracy, charisma and parliament / selections from the work of Max Weber -- The power elite / C. Wright Mills -- An elite theory of democracy / selections from the work of Joseph A. Schumpeter -- The ruling minorities in western societies / selections from the work of Raymond Aron --