1. Peter Bachrach and Morton S. Baratz. 1962. “Two Faces of Power.” American Political Science Review 56 (December): 947–52. Cited 543 times.

Abstract

The year after the 1961 publication of Robert Dahl's Who Governs?, “Two Faces of Power” criticized the treatment of power in this about-to-become classic work. Offering a third way neither elitist nor pluralist, Bachrach and Baratz made no defense of Floyd Hunter's reputational approach and they largely by-passed the literature on social stratification. Instead of revisiting past controversy, they sought to identify a fundamental feature of the political process, offering the second face of power as a wide view of how the game of politics is played.