Elites
Books:
Aron. “Social Structure and the Ruling Class,” British Journal of Sociology (1950);
Bottomore. Elites and Society (1964);
Cardoso. Dependency and Development in Latin America (1979, in Portuguese 1970).
Chafetz. Sex and Advantage: A Comparative Macro-Structural Theory of Sexual Stratification (1984);
Eisenstadt. The Political Systems of Empires (1963);
Elias. On the Process of Civilisation (Volume 3) (The Collected Works of Norbert Elias) (2012);
Galbraith. The New Industrial State (1967);
Lijphart. Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-six Countries (1999);
Linz. Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes (2000);
Michels. Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchial Tendencies of Modern Democracy (2016, in Italian 1911);
Mills. New Men of Power (1948);
- The Power Elite (1956);
Mosca. The Ruling Class (2018, in Italian 1896, 1923);
Myrdal G. Rich Lands and Poor (1957);
- Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations (1968);
Ortega y Gasset. Invertebrate Spain (1974, in Spanish 1921);
- The Revolt of the Masses (1994, in Spanish 1929);
Pakulski. Elite Recruitment in Australia (1980);
- Postcommunist Elites and Democracy in Eastern Europe (1998);
- Political Leadership in Decline: Careers of Australian Parliamentarians (2015).
Pareto. The Rise and Fall of Elites: An Application of Theoretical Sociology (1991, in Italian 1900);
Piven. The Breaking of the American Social Compact (1997);
- Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want it That Way (2000);
Runciman. „Towards a Theory of Social Stratification“, in Frank Parkin (ed.) The Social Analysis of Class Structure (1974);
Sassen. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (1991);
- Globalization and its Discontents (1999);
Saunders. Social Class and Stratification (1990);
Tocqueville. Democracy in America (2021, in French 1835, 1840);
- The Old Regime and the French Revolution (2014, in French 1856);
Wolf. Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis (1999);
Authors
- Mosca, Gaetano
- Aron, Raymond
