Political Science · Public Administration
UGC NET January 2025 Political Science
Who has given the concept of 'Managerial Revolution'?
AJames Burnham ✓ Correct
BC. Wright Mills
CRobert Michels
DKarl Mannheim
Correct answer: (A) James Burnham — James Burnham gave the concept of the managerial revolution, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★James Burnham gave the concept of the managerial revolution, so that is the answer.
★He set it out in his 1941 work 'The Managerial Revolution'.
★He argued that real control of modern enterprises is passing from owners to professional managers.
★As firms grow complex, those with technical and administrative skill, not the shareholders, run them.
★Burnham held that this managerial class would become the new dominant group in society.
★C. Wright Mills wrote on the power elite and Robert Michels on the iron law of oligarchy.
★Karl Mannheim is known for the sociology of knowledge, so none of the others fits.
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