Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City

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. Winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for 1962 and widely acclaimed as a major reinterpretation of the location of political power in American communities. “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.