Union Democracy
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Union Democracy: The Internal Politics of the International Typographical Union is a book by Seymour Martin Lipset, Martin Trow and James S. Coleman, originally published by New York Free Press in 195
Union Democracy
Iron law of oligarchy
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The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory first developed by the German-born Italian sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book Political Parties. It asserts that rule by an elite, or oligarchy
Union Democracy
…seen by the authors as the most democratic one in the contemporary (1950s) United States; an organization that seemingly disproved Robert Michels' Iron law of oligarchy. The book addresses the factors that influence the power structure and decision making processes in organizations, with a specific focus on the political…
Robert Michels, the sociologist who devised the iron law of oligarchy