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Polyarchy: Participation and OppositionBook

by Robert Dahl

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Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist at Stanford; author of The End of History and the Last Man and The Origins of Political Order.
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I was trying to think of a single book that would be a good both as a description and a primer on democracy. Frankly, I couldn't find one, but this book is quite famous because Robert Dahl was one of the greatest students of democracy. In Polyarchy, he indicated that a democracy is a lot more than just elections and voting and the formal institutions that we associate with it and that democracy really is about pluralism.

Five Books interview on liberal democracy

2021-07-26·fivebooks.com ↗

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