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A Critique of the Ruling Elite Model

Robert A. Dahl · American Political Science Review 52(2), 463–469 · 1958

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Robert A. Dahl
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DOI 10.2307/1952327
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2026-09-01

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EstablishedDahl argued that the ruling-elite hypothesis is often cast in a form that makes it virtually impossible to disprove, by positing ever more hidden leaders; Bachrach and Baratz replied that pluralists, while right to criticise elitists, saw only one of power's two faces.