Peter Bachrach e Morton S. Baratz, Two Faces of Power, in The American Political Science Review, vol. 56, n. 4, 1962, pp. 947–952, DOI:10.2307/1952796. URL consultato il 3 agosto 2026.
«[...] power is exercised when A participates in the making of decisions that affect B. But power is also exercised when A devotes his energies to creating or reinforcing social and political values and institutional practices that limit the scope of the political process to public consideration of only those issues which are comparatively innocuous to A. To the extent that A succeeds in doing this, B is prevented, for all practical purposes, from bringing to the fore any issues that might in their resolution be seriously detrimental to A’s set of preferences?»
