Dahl evaluation

Your job is to evaluate Dahl. For a critique of him, see UCLA sociologist G. William Domhoff’s Who Really Ruled in Dahl’s New Haven? Domhoff questions Dahl’s methodology and the narrowness of his surveys, saying that Dahl misread an oligarchical structure as pluralist. You do not need to read the whole article, but do read the …

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Client Politics: the sugar lobby

With thanks to Alexandra for finding this article on Bloomberg, March 13, 2013.  This article is for your information only. Feel free to comment. That Sickening Sugar Subsidy By the Editors – Mar 13, 2013 Sweet reason has left U.S. agricultural policy, at least judging from the latest installment in the sugar-subsidy saga. Because of …

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Dahl “Who Governs” reading

Read Dahl, “Who Governs” for information a. This is a difficult reading, so be sure to look up words you do not know.  We will discuss Dahl tomorrow in class, so you will be reading it again tomorrow night for a more informed and intensive reading b. use the same “active reading” process as listed …

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