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PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-100876209657

ISBN-139780876209653

eBay Product ID (ePID)671578

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Number of Pages190 Pages

Publication NameWho Really Rules? : New Haven and Community Power Re-Examined

LanguageEnglish

SubjectPublic Affairs & Administration, General

Publication Year1978

TypeTextbook

AuthorG. William Domhoff

Subject AreaPolitical Science

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.2 in

Item Weight8.8 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.8 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

ReviewsWho Really Rules? represents the first really empirical historical confrontation with Robert Dahl's Who Governs? on his own ground.--Roger Friedland, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara An excellent addition to the literature on community power. . . . A penetrating search through and beyond Professor Dahl's materials. --Floyd Hunter, University of Kentucky The beauty of the book resides not only in its methodological ingenuity, but also in its substantive conclusion.... It provides new directions in the community power research tradition. It is absolutely essential reading for those interested in power and its operation in American society. --Jonathan H. Turner, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Riverside An extremely valuable contribution to the longstanding debate between the pluralists and the power elitists.... Clearly written, persuasive, and should be an eye opener for those who have accepted Dahl's Who Governs? as gospel. --Richard L. Zweigenhaft, Department of Psychology, Guilford College

SynopsisRobert A. Dahl's Who Governs? is a classic pluralist study which has had an important influence on American social science since the early sixties. Who Really Rules? provides a categorical challenge--empirical, methodological, and theoretical--to Dahl's work. Empirically, Domhoff's restudy of New Haven shows through newly discovered documents that Dahl was wrong about the pluralism of New Haven's power structure. He also presents the most systematic statement of power structure methodology yet made, a statement that contradicts Dahl's methodological claims which have been the prevailing wisdom in American social science for over fifteen years. Finally, Domhoff outlines the national policy planning network through which the big business ruling class dominates urban government., Robert A. Dahl's Who Governs? is a classic pluralist study which has had an important influence on American social science since the early sixties. Who Really Rules? provides a categorical challenge-empirical, methodological, and theoretical-to Dahl's work. Empirically, Domhoff's restudy of New Haven shows through newly discovered documents that Dahl was wrong about the pluralism of New Haven's power structure. He also presents the most systematic statement of power structure methodology yet made, a statement that contradicts Dahl's methodological claims which have been the prevailing wisdom in American social science for over fifteen years. Finally, Domhoff outlines the national policy planning network through which the big business ruling class dominates urban government.