Robert A Dahl

Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy

Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy

A Preface to Economic Democracy

A Preface to Economic Democracy

Decision Making in a Democracy: The Supreme Court As a National Policy Maker

A Preface to Democratic Theory

A Preface to Democratic Theory

The Democracy Sourcebook

Robert A. Dahl

Robert Alan Dahl was a political theorist and Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. His established the pluralist theory of democracyin...

A Preface to Democratic Theory, Expanded Edition

Robert Dahl’s Preface helped launch democratic theory fifty years ago as a new area of study in political science, and it remains the standard introduction to the field. Exploring problems that had been left unsolved by traditional thought on democracy, Dahl here examines two influential models—the ...

On Political Equality

Robert A. Dahl, one of the world’s most influential and respected political scientists, has spent a lifetime exploring the institutions and practices of democracy in such landmark books as Who Governs?, On Democracy, and How Democratic Is the American Constitution? Here, Dahl looks at the fundamenta...

A Preface to Economic Democracy (Quantum Books)

Tocqueville pessimistically predicted that liberty and equality would be incompatible ideas. Robert Dahl, author of the classic A Preface to Democratic Theory, explores this alleged conflict, particularly in modern American society where differences in ownership and control of corporate enterprises ...

Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City, Second Edition (Yale Studies in Political Science)

In this now-classic work, one of the most celebrated political scientists of the twentieth century offers a powerful interpretation of the location of political power in American urban communities. For this new edition, Robert A. Dahl has written a new Preface in which he reflects on Who Governs? mo...

On Democracy (Yale Nota Bene)

The last half of the 20th century has been an era of democratic triumph. The main anti-democratic regimes - communist, fascist, Nazi - have disappeared, and new democracies are emerging vigorously or tentatively throughout the world. In this book, one of the most prominent political theorists of our...

Democracy and Its Critics

In this book, one of the most prominent political theorists of our era makes a statement about what democracy is and why it is important. Robert Dahl examines the most basic assumptions of democratic theory, tests them against the questions raised by its critics, and recasts the theory of democracy ...

How Democratic is the American Constitution? Second Edition

In this volume, an eminent political scientist questions the extent to which the American Constitution furthers democratic goals. Robert Dahl reveals the Constitution's potentially antidemocratic elements and explains why they are there, compares the American constitutional system to other democrati...

Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition

In this prize-winning book, one of the most prominent political theorists of our time makes a major statement about what democracy is and why it is important. Robert Dahl examines the most basic assumptions of democratic theory, tests them against the questions