Robert Michels was a German-born Italian sociologist who contributed to elite theory by describing the political behavior of intellectual elites.
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10 Facts About Robert Michels
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Robert Michels is best known for his book Political Parties, published in 1911, which contains a description of the "iron law of oligarchy.
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Robert Michels's 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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Robert Michels became a socialist while teaching at the Protestant University of Marburg and became active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany for whom he was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1903 German federal election.
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Robert Michels achieved international recognition for his historical and sociological study, Zur Soziologie des Parteiwesens in der modernen Demokratie.
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Robert Michels attended the First International Eugenics Congress in 1912 where he delivered a paper entitled "Eugenics in Party Organization".
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Robert Michels criticized what he perceived to be Karl Marx's materialistic determinism.
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Robert Michels then became professor of economics at the University of Basel, Switzerland, a post he held until 1928.
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Robert Michels was convinced that the direct link between Benito Mussolini's charisma and the working class was in some way the best means to realize a real lower social class government without political bureaucratic mediation.
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