sentences:  A major problem, in turn, is the ability of elites to co-opt counter-elites.Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Gaetano Mosca (1858–1941), and Robert Michels (1876–1936), were cofounders of the Italian school of elitism, which influenced subsequent elite theory in the Western tradition.The outlook of the Italian school of elitism is based on two ideas