The book “Who Governs?” by Robert Dahl analyzes and evaluates the role of the political elite in city government and the impact on interest groups and community power of governance. The book advances the theoretical argument and opens new issues related to city governance and political power in modern America. Dahl underlines that the problem of power is reduced, in the modern state, to the control of specific acts of some powers. Today, the role of power is not one problem but many problems; for there is no one abuse of power. The book does not reflect one particular issue but discusses a complex problem of power in Atlanta using the Decisional method of analysis. Dahl claims that the book is important to read because it helps citizens and interest groups to understand the structure and functions of power in a city environment. Dahl quests for solutions to the problems generated by the multiple powers. Following Dahl, abuses of power must be drawn between those associated with the acquisition of power and political powers resulting from how that power, once acquired, is exercised. The book consists of 6 parts (Books) devoted to different social and political problems of the region. The author makes his case using the decisional method of analysis. In the first instance, the fundamental concept is the usurpation of the legal power itself, the acquisition of political power by unconstitutional or wrongful means. In the second issue, political and local power is exercised not so much because it is acquired illegitimately but because a government acts oppressively. “The distinction between the ritual of power and the realities of power is frequently obscure” (Dahl 89). Dahl underlines that to speak of justice or the unwarranted deprivation of rights, however, is to raise certain difficulties, for these are matters of disputation, and they are likely to remain so. Rights, for Dahl, have most usually been held to be those claims guaranteed to men by the urban system under which they live or by the moral code to which they give or ought to give their loyalty. These two sources of local powers are not necessarily connected. They may be essentially opposed. The author has two views of urban power: one that looks to how the political leader acquires his domination, the other to how he exercises it. And it is to this twofold aspect of the abuse of power that writers on politics, with but rare exceptions have generally addressed themselves. Thus, when local political leaders argued in favor of a particular form of local community governance, based on democratic principles, they did so on both of these grounds. They asserted, first, that the power of urban politics rests on a right principle of authority, that is, on the freely rendered consent of the governed; and secondly, that it provides a political instrument which tends to prevent, or at least to alleviate, abuses of power by enabling the ruled to recall the leader should he get out of hand (Dahl 43). Dahl has based the book on interviews and opinions of important people and neighborhood rank residents. He analyzes public documents and statistical information. Democratic governments, on the other h