In Democratic Elitism, Natasha Piano provides a vital reappraisal of the so-called “elite theory” of polymathic political thinkers Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca, and Robert Michels.[1] Her reinterpretation argues that this “Italian School of Elitism” has been misappropriated in the Anglophone world. They are not in fact “elite theorists,” but “democratic theorists of elitism” (x). Piano... Source
