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1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 30 min.)) : digital. |
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Macat Library ; |
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Astrid, Norén-Nilsson.
Macat Library. Spoken word ;
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Macat.com. |
| Summary |
Robert A. Dahl argues that American liberal democracy is a pluralist system in which policy is not, as you might think, shaped by a small group of powerful individuals. Rather, power is distributed among several competing groups, with each of these groups seeking to influence decisions. Dahl provides evidence for this by making a case study of the decision-making process in New Haven, Connecticut, where only the mayor has power in all areas. The city's "highly competitive two-party system" leads Dahl to view the entire United States as New Haven writ large. A key text of pluralist democratic theory, the thinking that dominated the way America studied the notion of power in the late 1950s and 1960s. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Dahl, Robert A., 1915-2014. Who governs -- Criticism and interpretation.
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New Haven (Conn.) -- Politics and government.
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Municipal government -- United States -- Case studies.
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Community power -- United States -- Case studies.
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Macat.Com, .
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hoopla digital.
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| Cover Title |
Robert A. Dahl's Who governs? |
| ISBN |
9781912283989 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1912283980 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT13753565 |
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