Fair Park Expansion: A Case Study of Political Bias and Protest in Urban Politics Page: 80
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members was inimical to the usage of the most potent
political resource the group possessed--protest activity.
Therefore, a theory of protest cannot be viewed
separate and apart from a theory of political bias. Pro-
test activity does not occur in a vacuum; it occurs as a
result of encountering political bias and that same political
bias denies success.
Implications for Theories of Democratic Pluralism
A second category of conclusions deals with the impli-
cations of this study for theories of democratic pluralism.
This thesis was not envisioned as a critique of democratic
pluralism, but certain observations must be made. First,
that (as David Ricci says) access to government is not
randomly distributed and this fact can no longer be ignored
by those who write about the distribution of community
power. This is not to prolong or add to the elitist-
pluralist argument, but simply to call for a middle ground,
as has been done by Robert Schulze, Kent Jennings, Robert
Presthus, Linton Freeman and others, and to consider the
relationship among formal and informal characteristics of
the governmental structure and informal and formal patterns
of political influence, participation, and access in the
community.
Van Til points out that the empirical ground of con-
tention has been moving toward questions of participation
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Davies, Elizabeth Durham. Fair Park Expansion: A Case Study of Political Bias and Protest in Urban Politics, thesis, August 1974; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc663026/m1/88/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .