In the book "Who Governs? Power in an American City" Robert A. Dahl explores the power structure in America. For this he chooses the city of New Haven, CT as an example of this. I found it very interesting that Dahl makes an argument that power in America is divided into groups. He shows that elected officials are only one section of this power grid. Other areas that he points out are education, urban development, each group that he show is its own sector of power in the sector. He points out that this is how America as a whole is run, not by one elite group but by several. I thought that this book gave the reader a unique insight as to how politics in America is run and the fact that it isn't the one group that is in charge, unlike what Americans tend to think. The result of his analysis of New Haven is something that I thought was very eye opening in American Politics.
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