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Write short note: Power elite in society and the emergence of new elite in power structure

  • UPSC 2005
  • Politics and Society

Every society concentrates major decisions in a small group, which C. Wright Mills (The Power Elite, 1956) called the power elite. Its membership does not stay fixed. Economic change, democratic politics and state policy keep producing new elites that enter, and sometimes displace, the old ones. That is the process Vilfredo Pareto called the circulation…

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  • Power elite in society
  • Emergence of new elites in India
  • Circulation or reproduction?
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