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Write short note : Social responsibility of political elites.

  • UPSC 1991
  • Politics and Society in India

Elite theory explains why a minority rules; it does not tell us on what terms that rule is justified. Gaetano Mosca's insight that every ruling class needs a political formula already implies the answer: power that cannot account for itself loses its claim. The social responsibility of political elites is the sociological form of that…

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