Polity Atlas
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Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City

Robert A. Dahl · Yale University Press · 1961

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Author
Robert A. Dahl
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2026-09-01
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ISBN 0300000510.

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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.