Initially, there was much resistance within the movement against the founding of a political party, motivated by Robert Michels'iron law of oligarchy, which claims that movements inevitably degenerate into oligarchies when they create a formal organization.
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On the other hand, it's ridiculous for Wikipedia to be quoting an obscure state representative as an authority on everything from social stereotypes to the Iron law of oligarchy to Dave Winer to the United States Democratic Party to Three Mile Island.
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Perhaps in answer, " Leaders lead; but none too much, " might provide a solution to Michel's'iron law of oligarchy'where leaders can do job rotation with teaching environmental education, group decision-making, policy-making, as well as with other leaders, taking turns with administrative and diplomatic tasks.
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Sherman's article, " Breaking the Iron Law of Oligarchy : Tactical Innovation and the Revitalization of the American Labor Movement " ( co-authored with Kim Voss ) won the Distinguished Article Award of the Labor Studies Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 2001.
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Gregory concludes that students'unions can " resist the iron law of oligarchy " if they have " an engaged student community ", an " independent student media, " a " strong tradition of freedom of information, " and an " unbiased elections authority " capable of administrating elections fairly.
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Her article " Breaking the Iron Law of Oligarchy, " which she co-authored Rachel Sherman and which appeared in the " American Journal of Sociology " in September 2000 won the Distinguished Article Award from the Labor Studies Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 2001.
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The Iron Law of Oligarchy-- promulgated in 1911 and generally obscure-- deals with political organizations, and it reasonable that a guy like Cohen ( 21 years on the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committtee, 31 years as a member of the Pennsylvania House Democratic Caucus, nearly half of which he has served as an elected leader ) has something of value to say on this.
