Francesca Antonini

Towards an Intellectual History of Caesarism: Introduction

What could be timelier than a forum on Caesarism? 1 Had this collection of articles been published only a few years earlier, I would have introduced the topic quite differently. Recently, Caesarism has become the keyword of US (and therefore, to a certain extent, global) politics...

Caesarism in the Age of Elitism: The Case of Pareto

The goal of my article is to investigate the relationship between Caesarism and Elite theory across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In particular, I will focus on Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), the older and, to a certain extent, most authoritative representative of the so-...