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The Bureaucratic State–: Some Remarks on Mosca's Ruling Class

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Fritz Morstein Marx
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IT IS a painful paradox that the defeats suffered by the democratic myth abroad have coincided with the rise of a critical realism toward democratic institutions at home. No trend is more marked in contemporary American political science than that of comprehending the polity in terms of “pressure groups” competing for control. Such atomistic segregation inevitably minimizes the essential function of a firmly established ideological framework. Without it, the state is limp; allegiance is reduced to considerations of material satisfaction, changing with demand and supply; individual freedom lacks a dedication to superindividual objectives.

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The Review of Politics , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , October 1939 , pp. 457 - 472
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1939

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References

1 Control Social book III, chap. IV.

2 Pareto, Vilfredo, Traltato di Sodologia Generate, translated as The Mind and Society (New York, 1935)Google Scholar.

3 Mosca, Gaetano, Elementi di Scienza Politico, translated as The Ruling Class (New York, 1939)Google Scholar. Both translations, that of Pareto (see note 2) and that of Mosca; were undertaken under the skillful editorship of Arthur Livingston.

4 P. 81 (here as elsewhere referring to the American edition mentioned in note 3).

5 P. 83.

6 P. 86.

7 Ibid.

8 p. 256.

9 p. 380.

10 P. 464.

11 P. 71.

12 P. 265.

13 P. 268.

14 P. 255.

15 p. 389.

16 P. 390.

17 P. 404.

18 Pp. 390–391.

19 P. 325.

20 p. 144.

21 p. 147.

22 P. 160.

23 P. 408

24 P. 262

25 P. 406.

26 P. 407.

27 Pp. 407–408.

28 P. 409.