Re : Is he the author that wrote about redevelopment in New Haven? , asks Avram Rips. Not that I ever read it in college but, think you are alluding to ,"Who Governs? <https://www.jstor.org/stable/193412>: Democracy and Power in the American City," originally published in 1961, by Robert Dahl? Domhoff on Dahl's book. Who Really Ruled in Dahl's New Haven? <https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/local/new_haven.html>
The Wikipedia entry <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dahl> on Dahl notes this, btw, on his college dissertation from 1940. Dahl, Robert. "From Iowa and Alaska to an Even Wider World" <https://emeritus.yale.edu/system/files/IT-talks/dahl_it.pdf> (PDF). My nominal boss, Maurice (Maury) Weiss, was a Norman Thomas socialist whom I came to admire greatly. In the course of that year, I too became a socialist and actually joined the Socialist Party. Later, my dissertation topic was obviously influenced by my having acquired the perspective of a democratic socialist. ... The solution I came to favor, then, was to develop worker-owned cooperatives in a competitive price system. "*A Preface to Economic Democracy," written by Dahl, published in 1985. * "From the late 1960s onwards, his conclusions were challenged by scholars such as G. William Domhoff <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._William_Domhoff> and Charles E. Lindblom <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Lindblom> (a friend and colleague of Dahl).[16] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dahl#cite_note-16>[17] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dahl#cite_note-17> G. William Domhoff, *Who really rules?: New Haven and community power reexamined* (Transaction Books, 1978). Footnote 17 ^ , notes : David Vogel, *Fluctuating fortunes: The political power of business in America* (2003). I remember Domhoff in one of the two classes I took at UCSC taught by him, recommending Vogel, calling him a "mild socialist." Those socialist leanings were expressed in "Corporations and the Left," published in Socialist Revolution - Number 20 - volume 4, Number 2, 1974 <https://archive.org/details/sim_radical-society_1974-10_4_2/page/n1/mode/2up>. I owned a paperback copy of Lindblom's ," *Politics And Markets," decades ago. "**Politics and Markets (1977) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Lindblom> * In his best known work, *Politics And Markets* (1977), Lindblom notes the "privileged position of business in polyarchy". He also introduces the concept of "circularity", or "controlled volitions," in which "even in the democracies, masses are persuaded to ask from elites only what elites wish to give them." Thus, any real choices and competition are limited. Worse still, any development of alternative choices or even any serious discussion and consideration of them is effectively discouraged. An example is the political party <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party> system <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_system> in the United States, which is almost completely dominated by two powerful parties, which often reduce complex issues and decisions to two simple choices. Related to that is the concurrent concentration of the mass communications media <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media> into an oligopoly <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly>, which effectively controls who gets to participate in the national dialogue and who suffers a censorship <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship> of silence. *Politics And Markets* provoked a wide range of critical reactions that extended beyond the realms of academia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy>. The Mobil Corporation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil> took out a full page ad in *The New York Times <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times>* to denounce it.[7] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Lindblom#cite_note-mobil-7> This helped the book achieve greater notoriety, which in turn helped it get onto *The New York Times* Best Seller list <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list>, a rarity for a scholarly work. His criticism of democratic capitalism and polyarchy and his seeming praise for the political economy of Tito <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito>'s Yugoslavia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia>, Lindblom was (perhaps predictably) labeled a "closet communist" and a "creeping socialist" by conservative critics in the west. Marxist <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist> and communist critics chided him for not going far enough. Originally, Dahl too disagreed with many of Lindblom's observations and conclusions, but in a later work *How Democratic Is the American Constitution? <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Democratic_Is_the_American_Constitution%3F>*, he also became critical of polyarchy in general and its U.S. form in particular. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. 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