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A Preface to Democratic Theory, Expanded Edition
Robert DahlPolitical Science Quarterly
Paperback, 200 pages
Published
September 15th 2006
by University of Chicago Press
(first published June 28th 1956)
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It gets worse with every re-reading. I think I am going to use the introduction and first chapter as a compare/contrast exercise with the Federalist Papers. Dahl dismisses them as "propaganda" but needs them here to start his project. I think it'll be a good exercise for an upper-division American political theory course.
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Taking my first, and last, political science course at Grinnell in the sophomore year, I was introduced to Robert A. Dahl, proponent of a pluralist model to explain the functioning of representative government in the USA. Unfortunately, he was not introduced in the context of his debate with C. Wright Mills and G. William Domhoff, the first of whom I had already read and the second of whom I would have liked. Dahl himself, a proponent of political science as just that, a science, adduces a sto...more
the begining confused me
If you can stay awake while reading it, and I struggled to do so, you'll find a good critique of Madisonian theory and top analysis of America's democratic system.
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