Who Really Rules?: New Haven and Community Power Reexamined
Who Really Rules?represents the first really empirical historical confrontation with Robert Dahl’sWho Governs?on his own ground.—Roger Friedland, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa BarbaraAn excellent addition to the literature on community power. . . . A penetrating search through and beyond Professor Dahl’s materials. —Floyd Hunter, University of KentuckyThe 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, RiversideAn 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’sWho Governs?as gospel. —Richard L. Zweigenhaft, Department of Psychology, Guilford College