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An Analysis of Robert A. Dahl's Democracy and its Critics

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Availability:In StockContributor:Astrid Noren Nilsson, Elizabeth Morrow, Riley QuinnSeries:Macat LibraryPublish date:2017-07-05Pages:96
Language:EnglishPublisher:Macat LibraryISBN-13:9781912127344ISBN-10:1912127342UPC:9781912127344Book Category:Political Science, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:History & TheorySize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.19 inchesWeight:0.2205Product ID:SC1ZJ5WD88
There are few better examples of analysis - the critical thinking skill of understanding how an argument is built - than Robert Dahl's Democracy and its Critics. In this work, the American political theorist closely analyzes the democratic political system and then evaluates whether the arguments that are in favor of it are, in fact, rigorous. Dahl sets out to describe democracy's merits and problems, asking if it really is the worthwhile political system we believe it to be. Knowing that the idea of democracy is now almost universally popular, his detailed analysis leads him to look at a number of regimes that claim to be democratic but do not, in truth, practice democracy. But Dahl is not only interested in uncovering uncomfortable truths. He goes further and creates a set of standards by which we can all decide whether a country really is democratic. Dahl's analysis of the evidence leads him to conclude that the following criteria must be met for a regime to be considered truly democratic: elected officials control policy-making; there are free and fair elections of officials; everyone must have a right to vote; everyone has the right to run for office; there is freedom of speech; alternative information is available; and people can form free, independent political groups.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Macat LibraryISBN-13:9781912127344ISBN-10:1912127342UPC:9781912127344Book Category:Political Science, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:History & TheorySize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.19 inchesWeight:0.2205Product ID:SC1ZJ5WD88

Dr Astrid Noren Nilsson holds a doctorate in politics and international studies from the University of Cambridge. She currently teaches at the University of Lund in Sweden, and is the author of the monograph Cambodia's Second Kingdom: Nation, Imagination, and Democracy (Cornell SEAP, 2016). Her research interests include democratic change, nationalism, the politics of memory, and emerging notions of citizenship and social change in South-East Asia.

Dr Lindsay Scorgie Porter is visiting assistant professor in politics at the University of Western Ontario. She holds a PhD in politics and international studies from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in global politics from the London School of Economics.

Riley Quinn holds master's degrees in politics and international relations from both LSE and the University of Oxford.


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