Gaetano Mosca

Gaetano Mosca
Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies
for Palermo
In office
24 March 1909 – 29 September 1919
ConstituencyCaccamo
Personal details
Born(1858-04-01)1 April 1858
Palermo, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Died8 November 1941(1941-11-08) (aged 83)
Rome, Italy
Political partyHistorical Right
Alma materUniversity of Palermo
ProfessionTeacher, journalist

Philosophy career
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolItalian 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 Mosca COSML COCI SoK (Italian pronunciation: [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.[2][3]

  1. ^ N. Jayapalan, Comprehensive Modern Political Analysis, Atlantic Publishers, 2002, p. 156.
  2. ^ Robert A. Nye, The Anti-Democratic Sources of Elite Theory: Pareto, Mosca, Michels, Sage, 1977, p. 22.
  3. ^ J. J. Chambliss (ed.), Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, 2013, p. 179.