Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies for Palermo
In office 24 March 1909 – 29 September 1919
Constituency
Caccamo
Personal details
Born
(1858-04-01)1 April 1858 Palermo, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Died
8 November 1941(1941-11-08) (aged 83) Rome, Italy
Political party
Historical Right
Alma mater
University of Palermo
Profession
Teacher, journalist
Philosophy career
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),[1] elite theory
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Gaetano MoscaCOSML COCI SoK (Italian pronunciation:[ɡaeˈtaːnoˈmoska]; 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.[2][3]
^N. Jayapalan, Comprehensive Modern Political Analysis, Atlantic Publishers, 2002, p. 156.
^Robert A. Nye, The Anti-Democratic Sources of Elite Theory: Pareto, Mosca, Michels, Sage, 1977, p. 22.
^J. J. Chambliss (ed.), Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, 2013, p. 179.
GaetanoMosca COSML COCI SoK (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaeˈtaːno ˈmoska]; 1 April 1858 – 8 November 1941) was an Italian political scientist, journalist...
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and sees a string of thinkers from Machiavelli and Montesquieu, to GaetanoMosca and Max Weber, Vilfredo Pareto and Robert Michels, on to James Bryce...
of interests or ideas. — Giuseppe Pitrè, 1889 Other scholars such as GaetanoMosca say: ...with the word Mafia, the Sicilians intend to express two things...
2019. This etymology is based on the books Che cosa è la mafia? by GaetanoMosca, Mafioso by Gaia Servadio, The Sicilian Mafia by Diego Gambetta, Mafia...
history Edward Potts Cheyney (1861–1947) GaetanoMosca (1858–1941) Antonio de Viti de Marco (1858–1943) Gaetano Salvemini (1873–1957) Niccolò Rodolico (1873–1969)...
political science, originally developed by Italian political theorist GaetanoMosca (1858–1941). It refers to the relatively small group of activists that...
C. Wright Mills, drawing from the theories of Vilfredo Pareto and GaetanoMosca, contends that the imbalance of power in society derives from the complete...
unrelated to the play and the film Elements of Political Science by GaetanoMosca, published in English as The Ruling Class Class (disambiguation) Elite...
as protagonist). On the political side notable philosophers include GaetanoMosca and Giovanni Gentile who wrote The Doctrine of Fascism. Today, in Sicily...
2017. This etymology is based on the books Che cosa è la mafia? by GaetanoMosca, Mafioso by Gaia Servadio, The Sicilian Mafia by Diego Gambetta, Mafia...
Ming. Important Italian social scientists include Antonio Gramsci, GaetanoMosca, Vilfredo Pareto, Franco Ferrarotti. Important Thai social theorists...
awe in which lay sinners held them.... In his book The Ruling Class, GaetanoMosca wrote of the medieval Church and its structure: [Although] the Catholic...
a movement of bourgeois intellectuals led by Gabriele d'Annunzio, GaetanoMosca, and Vilfredo Pareto declared war on the parliamentary system, and their...
determinism; this challenged Marxism. In his work The Ruling Class (1896), GaetanoMosca developed the theory that claims that in all societies an "organized...
Beatrice Webb's Soviet communism : a new civilisation ? is published. GaetanoMosca's History of Political Doctrines is published. William F. Ogburn's The...
prepared learning. SDT was influenced by the elite theories of Karl Marx, GaetanoMosca, Robert Michels, and Vilfredo Pareto, all of whom argue that societies...
of nationalists who presented nationalism as a cure for decadence. GaetanoMosca in his work The Ruling Class (1896) developed the theory that claims...
Francesco Acri Francesco Fiorentino Giovanni Bovio Antonio Labriola GaetanoMosca Vilfredo Pareto Giuliano Kremmerz Benedetto Croce Enrico Ruta Eugenio...
rights. The large division in social class during this period led lawyer GaetanoMosca (1858–1914) to publish his work, The Ruling Class: Elements of Political...
action is taken." The 20th-century Italian thinkers Vilfredo Pareto and GaetanoMosca (independently) argued that democracy was illusory, and served only...
works which have investigated religious stratification include that of GaetanoMosca whose research was published in his The Ruling Class. Although this...
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