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Robert Dahl

Political Science

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#75

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#25

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Alan Dahl was an American political theorist and Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He established the pluralist theory of democracy—in which political outcomes are enacted through competitive, if unequal, interest groups—and introduced "polyarchy" as a descriptor of actual democratic governance. An originator of "empirical theory" and known for advancing behavioralist characterizations of political power, Dahl's research focused on the nature of decision making in actual institutions, such as American cities. He is the most important scholar associated with the pluralist approach to describing and understanding both city and national power structures.

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Polyarchy; participation and opposition (1971) (4932)
The concept of power (2007) (3040)
Democracy and Its Critics (1990) (2924)
Who Governs: Democracy and Power in an American City. (1962) (2639)
A Preface to Democratic Theory (1957) (2208)
Studies in Social Power. (1960) (1011)
Politics, Economics and Welfare. (1953) (822)
A Preface to Economic Democracy (1986) (676)
Modern Political Analysis (1963) (675)
A Critique of the Ruling Elite Model (1958) (482)
On Political Equality (2006) (451)
Political oppositions in Western democracies (1967) (384)
Democracy's Edges: Can international organizations be democratic? A skeptic's view (1999) (381)
ON DEMOCRACY (1944) (377)
After the Revolution? Authority in a Good Society (1970) (344)
Decision-Making in a Democracy : The Supreme Court as a National Policy-Maker (2017) (334)
How Democratic Is the American Constitution (2001) (329)
Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy: Autonomy vs. Control (1982) (306)
The Behavioral Approach in Political Science: Epitaph for a Monument to a Successful Protest (1961) (305)
The City in the Future of Democracy (1967) (275)
The Science of Public Administration: Three Problems (1947) (258)
Pluralist Democracy in the United States: Conflict and Consent (1967) (237)
Representative Democracy (2009) (178)
Politics, Economics, and Welfare: Planning and Politico-Economic Systems Resolved Into Basic Processes (1976) (169)
Pluralist Democracy In The United States (1960) (167)
The Problem of Civic Competence (2008) (154)
Political Opposition in Western Democracies (1969) (147)
The democracy sourcebook (2003) (113)
Regimes and oppositions (1973) (96)
What Political Institutions Does Large‐Scale Democracy Require? (2005) (94)
A Democratic Paradox (2000) (92)
Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics (2007) (86)
Democracy, Liberty, and Equality (1988) (82)
Further Reflections on “The Elitist Theory of Democracy” (1966) (81)
Myth of the Presidential Mandate (1990) (80)
Congress and foreign policy (1950) (74)
On Removing Certain Impediments to Democracy in the United States (1977) (74)
Controlling Nuclear Weapons: Democracy Versus Guardianship (1985) (69)
Democracy in the United States: Promise and Performance (1973) (62)
Business and Politics: A Critical Appraisal of Political Science (1959) (54)
A Preface to Democratic Theory, Expanded Edition (1963) (48)
Equality versus Inequality (1996) (44)
Why Free Markets Are Not Enough (2008) (38)
The New American political (dis)order : an essay (1994) (31)
Toward democracy : a journey : reflections, 1940-1997 (1997) (28)
Power and Democracy in America. (2011) (25)
Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-Making Proceses in Administrative Organization.@@@Models of Man, Social and Rational. (1957) (25)
Reflections on Opposition in Western Democracies (1965) (24)
Sketches for a Democratic Utopia (1987) (21)
Social Science Research on Business: Product and Potential (1959) (21)
Polyarchy, Pluralism, and Scale† (1984) (20)
Political Theory: Truth and Consequences (1958) (19)
Controlling Nuclear Weapons (1985) (19)
A Right to Workplace Democracy? Response to Robert Mayer (2001) (19)
Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses; Notice of Meeting (2007) (17)
POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY (2000) (17)
James Madison: Republican or Democrat? (2005) (12)
A Transcriptional Logic for nuclear Reprogramming (2006) (12)
Devaluing Democracy (2008) (11)
Power, inequality, and democratic politics : essays in honor of Robert A. Dahl (1988) (11)
The Future of Democratic Theory (1996) (10)
How Democratic Is the American Constitution? (2017) (10)
On Democracy: Second Edition (1998) (9)
Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics: What have we learned? (2004) (8)
Cause and effect : the Hayden Colloquium on scientific method and concept (1965) (8)
Readings in modern political analysis (1968) (8)
Worker's Control of Industry and the British Labor Party (1947) (8)
The Science of Politics: New and Old (1955) (8)
The Islamist Challenge: Religion and Modernity in Algeria (2008) (7)
A Conversation with Robert A. Dahl (2009) (7)
Is international democracy possible?: A critical view (2005) (6)
The Presidency Today (1974) (6)
Marxism and Free Parties (1948) (6)
Who Participates in Local Politics and Why (1961) (6)
A Democratic Paradox? 1 (2000) (6)
Comment on Manley (Vol. 77, June 1983, pp. 368–383) (1983) (6)
The Moscow Discourse: Fundamental Rights in a Democratic Order (1980) (5)
Participation and Democracy: A Review Essay (1972) (4)
Domestic Control of Atomic Energy (1952) (4)
The impact of atomic energy (1953) (3)
Light Trap Records of Phyllophaga (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Wisconsin, 1984-1987 (1991) (3)
A Rejoinder (1991) (3)
Measuring democracy and autocracy (2015) (3)
Toward Empirical Democratic Theory: Research Strategies and Tactics@@@Agreement and the Stability of Democracy@@@Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition@@@The Attentive Public: Polyarchical Democracy@@@The Democratic Experience: Past and Prospects@@@The Analysis of Political Cleavages (1972) (3)
The Shrine of Party: Congressional Voting Behavior, 1841–1852 . By Joel H. Silbey (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967. Pp. 292. $6.00.) (1969) (3)
Justifying democracy (1995) (3)
Reflections on A Preface to Democratic Theory (1991) (3)
Atomic Energy and the Democratic Process (1953) (2)
Social science and community action (2017) (2)
Democratic Theory and Democratic Experience (2021) (2)
Top Leadership, U.S.A . By Floyd Hunter. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1959. Pp. xvi, 268. $6.00.) (1960) (2)
Reflections on a Half Century of Political Science: Lecture Given by the Winner of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, Uppsala, 30 September 1995 (1996) (2)
Domestic Control of Atomic Energy: Part III (1952) (1)
Modern Political Analysis@@@The American Party System and the American People@@@Politics and Policies in State and Local Governments@@@Perspectives in Constitutional Law (1964) (1)
Democratic Deficit in South Asia (2016) (1)
Political Equality in the Coming Century (2001) (1)
Some Social Processes for Rational Calculation (2017) (1)
Democratic Political Parties : Recognizing Contradictory Principles and Perception (1)
Justifying democracy (1998) (1)
Political Equality, Then and Now (2006) (1)
A brief history of faith healing. (1960) (1)
A Brilliant Scholar and a Loyal Friend (2007) (0)
Chapter 2 Constitutional Courts in Search of Legitimacy (2019) (0)
Price System, Hierarchy, Polyarchy for Choice and Allocation (2017) (0)
Democracy in the Americas: Approaching the Year 2000 A Rapporteurs' Report (2014) (0)
The princess September and other stories (1980) (0)
The Formal Structure Of Government (1970) (0)
THE FORM AND FUNCTIONS OF ŚAKTI IN KASHMIR ŚAIVISM (2017) (0)
Corporate Deliberative Democracy: Case Study of Deliberative Democratic Conversations at the the Longbird Enterprise Group (2012) (0)
Index to Volume 21 (1986) (0)
[no title] (1970) (0)
Polyarchy: Control of Leaders (Continued) (2017) (0)
PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION IN WESTERN EUROPEAN DEMOCRACIES TODAY: SYSTEMIC OR ISSUE-ORIENTED? A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TWO PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEMS. ECPR JOINT SESSIONS OF WORKSHOPS WORKSHOP 12 – POLITICAL POWER IN PARLIAMENTARY EXECUTIVES (2007) (0)
Principles of private and public planning (1951) (0)
New Haven Community Study (1966) (0)
THE CONCEPT OF ISSUE-AREA IN FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS (2016) (0)
Books in Review : DEMOCRA TIC POLITICA L THEOR Y by J. Roland Pennock. Prince ton: Princeton University Press, 1980. Pp. xxii, 573. $32.50 hardcover, $6.95 softcover. (1981) (0)
IPO volume 8 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (1978) (0)
Polyarchy: Control of Leaders (2017) (0)
Volume Information (1990) (0)
Social Techniques and Rational Social Action (2017) (0)
Some Social Processes for Control (2017) (0)
CHAPTER 4. A Respectable Role For Emotions (2017) (0)
Hierarchy: Control by Leaders (2017) (0)
The Price System: Control of and by Leaders (2017) (0)
Bargaining: Control Among Leaders (2017) (0)
Bold Critic, Cautious Reformer, Skeptical but Hopeful Rationalist (2019) (0)
ROBERT DAHL AND THE ROAD TO POLYARCHY (2010) (0)
10 Democracy and democracies: between theory and facts (2013) (0)
[no title] (1970) (0)
The Price System: Control of and by Leaders (Continued) (2017) (0)
Electoral Legitimation, Polyarchy, and Democratic Legitimacy (2006) (0)
American Democratic Theory: Pluralism and Its Critics . By William Alton Kelso. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. Pp. xii, 288. $18.95.) (1980) (0)
Bargaining: Control Among Leaders (Continued) (2017) (0)
Validity of Organizational Theories@@@Organization of Industry (1947) (0)
Panel VI: The Future of Democracy in the Hemisphere (1998) (0)
Common Frontiers of the Social Sciences. Edited by Mirra Komarovsky. (Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press and the Falcon's Wing Press. 1957. Pp. vii, 439. $6.00.) (1958) (0)
Hierarchy: Control by Leaders (Continued) (2017) (0)
Bargaining as a Politico-Economic Technique (2017) (0)
Economics and Public Policy: Brookings Lectures, 1954 . By Arthur Smithies, Joseph J. Spengler, Frank H. Knight, John Jewkes, Jacob Viner, and Lionel Robbins. (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution. 1955. Pp. vii, 157. $2.00.) (1956) (0)
THE CIVIC PROBLEM OF COMPETENCE (1992) (0)
Ends and Means (2017) (0)
Price System, Hierarchy, and Polyarchy for Choice and Allocation (Continued) (2017) (0)
Community, Collaboration, And Collections: The Writings of Ross Atkinson (2005) (0)
WPO volume 19 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (1967) (0)
THE SEPARATION OF POWERS AND REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT * (2007) (0)
The relationship of the clergy and the physician throughout the a ages. (1958) (0)
Award Recipients (1987) (0)
Volume Information (1977) (0)
A Sweet Vision of Postindustrial Society@@@A Preface to Economic Democracy. (1986) (0)
Social Processes for Economizing (2017) (0)
Price System, Hierarchy, and Polyarchy for Other Economizing Processes (2017) (0)
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 290: "The Impact of Atomic Energy." (1954) (0)
Identifying methodological challenges (of environmental indicators) (2007) (0)
WPO volume 16 issue 4 Cover and Front Matter (1964) (0)
APSA Awards and Recipients (1993) (0)

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