Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, by P. Bachrach
  • The elite concept, by H. D. Lasswell, D. Lerner, and C. E. Rothwell
  • Democratic practice and democratic theory, by B. Berelson, P. Lazarsfeld, and W. McPhee
  • The American system in crisis, by D. B. Truman
  • A critique of t