The Rise and Fall of Elites - Vilfredo Pareto - Bog

Combining a thorough introduction to the work of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Italian social theo-rist Vilfredo Pareto with a highly read-able English translation of Pareto's last monograph, "Generalizations," this work illus-trates precisely how and why demo-cratic forms of government undergo decay and are eventually re-invigo-rated