TY - JOUR
AU - Abraham, Henry J.
AB - 306 I POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY appendix does he take on his detractors directly for what he perceives, seemingly justifi­ ably, to be their misreading of the degree to which so-called pluralist theory minimizes inequalities among citizens . With respect to the latter, his discussions both of the setting of the political agenda and the cooptation of public functions by corporations reveal his ability to incorporate into his own thinking telling points made by others. Two chapters bear special mention. Starting from the proposition that many of the effects that are ascribed to democratic pluralism reflect American scholars' concentration on the American case, Dahl undertakes a brief cross -national survey in Chapter 4. Focus­ ing on differences among polities with respect to the nature of social conflict, the struc­ ture of political institutions, and the character of the autonomous organizations them­ selves, he conclud es that certain of the peculiarities of American politics-most notably the absence of a socialist alternative- cannot justifiably be attributed to the vigor of the organizational pluralism in the American context. In the final chapter he concentrates exclusively on the United States and discusses how some of the pernicious consequences of democratic pluralism, in particular the 
TI - Felix Frankfurter and His Times: The Reform Years, by Michael E. Parrish ;  The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter, by H. N. Hirsch
JF - Political Science Quarterly
DO - 10.2307/2149422
DA - 1983-06-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/felix-frankfurter-and-his-times-the-reform-years-by-michael-e-parrish-OCEsWAbiYO
SP - 306
EP - 308
VL - 98
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -