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28%OFFRobert A. Dahl - Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City, Second Edition - 9780300103922 - V9780300103922
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Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City, Second Edition

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Description for Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City, Second Edition Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 209 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
In this now-classic work, one of the most celebrated political scientists of the twentieth century offers a powerful interpretation of the location of political power in American urban communities. For this new edition, Robert A. Dahl has written a new Preface in which he reflects on Who Governs? more than four decades after its publication. And in a new Foreword, Douglas W. Rae offers an assessment of Dahl's achievement in this, Dahl's greatest and most influential book. Dahl is never dogmatic, and never imagines that the world stands still to accommodate either the democratic ideal or his own ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300103922
SKU
V9780300103922
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About Robert A. Dahl
Robert A. Dahl is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Yale University and past president of the American Political Science Association. He is the author of numerous books, including Polyarchy and Democracy and Its Critics, available in paperback from Yale University Press.

Reviews for Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City, Second Edition
Winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for 1962 and widely acclaimed as a major reinterpretation of the location of political power in American communities Dahl is never dogmatic, and never imagines that the world stands still to accommodate either the democratic ideal or his own pluralistic theory of city politics. . . . Who Governs? is Dahl's ... Read more

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