Michels' Iron Law of Oligarchy holds that bureaucracies:

a. eventually lead to political dictatorship.
b. are inevitable in any democratic society.
c. are outdated forms of social organization.
d. always become dominated by a small group of self-serving elites.
e. eventually come to meet the needs of their members.


D

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