Robert Michels, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German sociologist
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Place of Birth: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Robert Michels
- Robert Michels (German: ['m?ç?ls]; 9 January 1876, Cologne, Germany – 3 May 1936, Rome, Italy) was a German-born Italian sociologist who contributed to elite theory by describing the political behavior of intellectual elites.
- He belonged to the Italian school of elitism.
- He is best known for his book Political Parties, published in 1911, which contains a description of the "iron law of oligarchy." He was a friend and disciple of Max Weber, Werner Sombart and Achille Loria.
- Politically, he moved from the Social Democratic Party of Germany to the Italian Socialist Party, adhering to the Italian revolutionary syndicalist wing and later to Italian Fascism, which he saw as a more democratic form of socialism.
- His ideas provided the basis of moderation theory which delineates the processes through which radical political groups are incorporated into the existing political system.
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