Gaetano Mosca

Gaetano Mosca
COSML COCI SoK
Gaetano Mosca COSML COCI SoK
Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies; for Palermo
	In office; 24 March 1909 – 29 September 1919
Constituency	Caccamo
Personal details
Born	1 April 1858; Palermo, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Died	8 November 1941 (aged 83); Rome, Italy
Political party	Historical Right
Alma mater	University of Palermo
Profession	Teacher, journalist
Philosophical work
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), elite theory
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Gaetano Mosca COSML COCI SoK (Italian: [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]

^ 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.

Gaetano Mosca COSML COCI SoK


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


Philosophical work
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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