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How power works within groups and why organizations tend to concentrate authority in the hands of a few.
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From Political Sociology: Why Every Organization Drifts Toward Oligarchy
Gaetano Mosca argued that an organized minority always rules the majority. Why can it?
- The majority nearly always votes to keep it in power
- A minority can coordinate where a majority cannot
- It always owns nearly all of the farmland
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Answer: A minority can coordinate where a majority cannot
A hundred people acting in concert can defeat a thousand acting separately, so organization, not numbers, decides who rules.
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