POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Campaign Advertising, Robert A. Dahl, Elitism
8 Oct 2016
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Extremely close ties of political, economic, and military sectors. Political directorate senior political leadership and top government bureaucrats. We live in a pluralist society where we are made up of different groups of people. There are shifts and changes in who has power depending on the issues, context. Power was broadly shared and dispersed between everyone. Response to elitist approach power is more dispersed. Need to look at the actual events, participants, to see who is exercising power. Who has power: elitist: the few, pluralism the many. How is power exercised: elitism: increasingly unified power structure, pluralism: exercise of power constantly changing. Bachrach and baratz two faces of power challenged the dalh and the pluralist approach. Agree with dalh with pluralism that elitist approach predetermines its answer. But argues that power has other dimensions beyond what pluralism. Who sets the agenda: agenda may be set to keep things safe for those in power, some ideas/opinions/issues are ruled unimportant .
