Who Governs? - Democracy and Power in the American City (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

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 pluralistic theory of city politics. . . ."Who Governs? "is Dahl's liveliest and most remarkable book."--Douglas W. Rae, from the Foreword
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"From reviews of the first edition:
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""A book that no one interested in politics can afford to ignore."--Lewis A. Coser, "Commentary"
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""Anyone seriously concerned with current systematic political theory or with urban politics should read "Who Governs?"--"Hugh "Douglas Price, "Political Science Quarterly"
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""A sophisticated and undogmatic treatise on democratic politics."--Heinz Eulau, "American Political Science Review"
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""Dahl has illuminated a central question in political science, the problem of how men can govern themselves in complex societies. . . . "Who Governs? will "become a classic."--from the citation of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award