RobertA. Dahl. “A Critique of the Ruling Elite Model.” American Political Science Review52 (1958): 463–69. Compelling criticique of Mills's view and his conclusions, advocating a behavioral approach and pointing to pluralist conclusions elaborated in the later works of Dahl and his colleagues.
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MichelFoucault.Power, ed. FaubionJ. D.. Vol. 3 of Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984 (New Press, 2000). A collection of shorter pieces relating to power, including Foucault's more rhetorical and extreme statements.
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StevenLukes.Power: A Radical View. 2nd ed. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000). Surveys recent debates about power and defends the idea of “third-dimensional power” against critics.
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Wright MillsC.. The Power Elite (Oxford University Press, 2000 [1956]). A modern classic, which deploys a view of power that is broad but methodologically inadequate.
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DennisWrong.Power: Its Forms, Bases and Uses (Transaction Publishers, 1995 [1979]). A magisterial survey of debates about power.
