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Bennington Study Shows Elite Divided Yet Democratic
The Bennington study by Harry Scoble revisits the 1955 thesis Yankee Town to show Bennington’s leaders are fractured rather than monolithic, reflecting public opinion. It compares Scoble’s findings with Dahl and Schumpeter on competing elites, noting how native and outsider factions shaped school consolidation and local power.
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Raymond B. Bowen
Woodford Road
Scoble
Bennington
Williams College
Yale University
Yankeetown
Lynds
Middletown
Floyd Hunter
Atlanta
Hunter
Harry Scoble
Yale
Robert Dahl
Dahl
New Haven
Conn
Joseph Schumpeter
Banner
Francis E. Morrissey
Morrissey
Scobie
Water Board
Francis Morrissey
Barbara Bowen
Williams
Vassar
New Rochelle
N.Y
Navy Air Corps
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Boston University
University of Wisconsin
University of California At Los Angeles
UCLA