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Two Faces of Power

Peter Bachrach; Morton S. Baratz · American Political Science Review 56(4), 947–952 · 1962

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Peter Bachrach; Morton S. Baratz
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DOI 10.2307/1952796
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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.