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The Iron Law of Leadership: Ideology and Party Organization

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This chapter investigates on the impact of personalization on party organization and ideology. The idea that parties tend to concentrate power at the top of their organization dates back to Robert Michels’ “iron law of oligarchy” and was followed by the Weberian reflection on charismatic leadership. In the last few years, the field of party organization has been the object of major innovation, as the substitution of the traditional party oligarchies with more personalized actors and roles has impacted upon all Western democracies, both at the political and the institutional levels. With reference to these deep transformations, this chapter also takes into consideration the charisma of new party leaders by questioning whether it may be compared to the charismatic phenomenon of past prophets and commanders.

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