Exhibit 1178 · Journal article
The Iron Law of What Again? Conceptualizing Oligarchy Across Organizational Forms
The debate around Michels's “iron law of oligarchy” over the question of whether organizations inevitably become oligarchic reaches back almost a century
Concept paper: oligarchy should be defined as a concentration of illegitimate power in an entrenched minority, and a democratic structure does not guarantee its absence; studies that equate oligarchy with goal displacement miss radical organizations ruled by an elite. Abstract read (Crossref).
- Source
- Darcy K. Leach, Sociological Theory 23(3):312-337
- Date
- September 2005
- Quoted from
- Abstract
- Grade
- Peer-reviewed
- Document
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0735-2751.2005.00256.x
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Standing note: conceptual. Use only to support "tendency, with named exceptions".