DAY 4 AND 5. PLURALISTS MODELS ON POWER AND THE STRUCTURALIST CRITIQUE

THE PLURALIST VISION OF POWER

       DAY 4 and 5

Reference texts:
Nelson W. Polsby. How to Study Community Power:
the Pluralist Alternative.
Journal of Politics, 1960, vol. 22, pp. 474-484.

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This is part of the module dedicated to models of power from the 20th century. Today we see the Pluralist model introduced by Polsby in his 1960 article, How to Study Community Power: The Pluralist Alternative. Polsby makes a plea in favor of pluralism while he attacks structuralist models.

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