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John Higley and Michael Burton, Elite Foundations of Liberal Democracy (2006); Robert Michels, Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy, trans. from the Italian by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul (1915); Kenneth Prewitt and Alan Stone, The Ruling Elites: Elite Theory, Power, and American Democracy (1973).

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