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Exhibit 1215

Two faces of power

Exhibit 1215 ยท Journal article

Two faces of power

There are two faces of power, neither of which the sociologists see and only one of which the political scientists see.

Critique of both elitist and pluralist community-power studies. Argues that both research traditions miss a second face of power.

Source
Peter Bachrach and Morton S. Baratz, American Political Science Review 56(4): 947-952
Date
1962
Quoted from
First-page abstract, p. 947 (Cambridge Core)
Grade
Peer-reviewed
Document
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/two-faces-of-power1/0642CFB6AFD6EBF4312DF34CF1556671
Accessed
2026-11-10
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Note
Only the first-page abstract on Cambridge Core was read; the article body and the 1963 follow-up (Decisions and Nondecisions) were not. The phrase "mobilization of bias" was not read in the source.

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