El poder de las élites que nos gobiernan. A propósito de Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca y Robert Michels
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2020
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Contreras Ugarte, Jesús Víctor (2020). El Poder de las élites que nos gobiernan. A propósito de Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca y Robert Michels. Revista Internacional Consinter De Direito, 6(11), 151–178. https://doi.org/10.19135/revista.consinter.00011.06
Abstract
La crisis de hoy se nota, y se nota más, en la falta de valores, de decencia y, además, de capacidad de muchos de los que nos representan y de muchos de los que más tienen. Existe la percepción de que los que gobiernan suelen ser los que mejor están. El único mayor interés de ellos es mantener su privilegiado y particularista estado de bienestar propio. Los gobernados solo importan a los que gobiernan cuando les son útiles como instrumentos para acceder y para conservar el poder. Esto lleva a preguntarme: ¿cómo es que los gobernantes se hacen con el poder?, ¿cómo es que lo conservan? y ¿cómo es que lo pierden? Este trabajo da respuesta a estas tres preguntas a partir de los lúcidos desarrollos teóricos de Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca y Robert Michels. Dos italianos y un alemán, respectivamente, todos ellos personajes de los primeros ocho lustros del siglo XX, cuyas teorías se pueden aplicar perfectamente para dar respuesta a la actualidad de nuestro siglo XXI.
Today's crisis is evident, and even more so, in the lack of values, decency and, moreover, the capacity of many of those who represent us and many of those who have the most. There is a perception that those who govern are usually the ones who are better off. Their only major interest is to maintain their privileged and particularistic state of well-being. The governed only matter to those who govern when they are useful as instruments for gaining and retaining power. This leads me to ask: how do those in power come to power? How do they retain it? And how do they lose it? This work answers these three questions based on the lucid theoretical developments of Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca and Robert Michels. Two Italians and one German, respectively, all of them figures from the first eight decades of the 20th century, whose theories can be perfectly applied to answer the questions of our 21st century.
Today's crisis is evident, and even more so, in the lack of values, decency and, moreover, the capacity of many of those who represent us and many of those who have the most. There is a perception that those who govern are usually the ones who are better off. Their only major interest is to maintain their privileged and particularistic state of well-being. The governed only matter to those who govern when they are useful as instruments for gaining and retaining power. This leads me to ask: how do those in power come to power? How do they retain it? And how do they lose it? This work answers these three questions based on the lucid theoretical developments of Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca and Robert Michels. Two Italians and one German, respectively, all of them figures from the first eight decades of the 20th century, whose theories can be perfectly applied to answer the questions of our 21st century.











