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Robert A. Dahl

American political scientist (1915–2014)

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“One of the difficulties that confronts anyone who attempts to answer the question, "Who rules in a pluralist democracy?" is the ambiguous relationship of leaders to citizens.”
“People can be deceived by appeals intended to destroy democracy in the name of democracy. Dissenters who believe in the democratic creed may unwittingly advocate or legitimists may insist on preserving rules of the game destined to have unforeseen and unintended consequences disastrous to the stability and perhaps the survival of the democracy.”
“That democratization has never closely approached its theoretical limits, either in the government of the state or in the government of other institutions, is revealed in the three great historical movement toward democratizing the state.”
“The democratic process in governing a country is not necessarily enhanced by democratizing subsidiary parts of the process.”
“Even in a democratic country, it appears, nondemocratic forms of authority might sometimes be tolerable, perhaps actually desirable.”
“Democracy in the sense of political equality and majority rule is by no means the most desirable, that is, optimal solution for all kinds of associations.”

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Born: Robert Alan Dahl , ( 1915-12-17 ) December 17, 1915, Inwood, Iowa , U.S.
Died: February 5, 2014 (2014-02-05) (aged 98), Hamden, Connecticut , U.S.
Spouses: Mary Louise Bartlett (1940–1970) Ann Sale (1973–2014)
Awards: Johan Skytte Prize (1995)
Education: University of Washington ( BA ) Yale University ( MA , PhD )
Thesis: Socialist Programs and Democratic Politics: An Analysis
Academic advisors: Francis Coker Harvey Mansfield, Sr.
Influences: Elite theory Kenneth Arrow Léon Duguit James Coleman Carl Hempel
Discipline: Political science
Sub discipline: Political theory
Institutions: Yale University
Notable students: Catharine MacKinnon Guillermo O'Donnell Nelson Polsby Ian Shapiro Edward Tufte Ray Wolfinger James Fishkin

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Robert Alan Dahl (/dɑːl/; December 17, 1915 – February 5, 2014) 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.