Robert A. Dahl

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Robert A Dahl, född 1915, amerikansk professor emeritus vid Yale University och fortfarande aktiv som en framstående statsvetare.

Dahl hamnade i centrum för den statsvetenskapliga debatten och i polemik med bland annat sociologen C. Wright Mills efter publiceringen 1961 av sitt banbrytande verk "Who governs? Democracy and power in an American city" där han kartlägger vem som har den egentliga makten i New Haven. Dahl anser sig visa att det inte finns en urskiljbar elit utan att makten ligger hos flera olika, ibland i samarbete och ibland i strid med varandra (jfr polyarki).

Även om Dahl ursprungliga text idag möter flera invändningar om att ha missat flera faktorer (bland annat könsstrukturer) har verket fortfarande en viktig plats inom statsvetenskapen och Dahl har blivit en nyckelfigur för den realistiska skolan inom statsvetenskapen. Dahls syn den moderna demokratin är delvis en fortsättning på Max Webers tankar. Till Dahls senare verk märks "How Democratic Is the American Constitution?" med en mera pessimistisk synsätt.

Dahl har även haft stort inflytande i den normativa demokratiteoretiska debatten och kan anses som en av pluralismens främsta förespråkare. Dahls demokratidefinition betonar vikten av politisk jämlikhet

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Några av Dahl publicerade verk:

• How democratic is the American Constitution? 2nd ed. (New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2003).
• Es Democrática La Constitución de Los Estados Unidos? (México, D.F.; San Diego, CA : Fondo de Cultura Económica USA, 2003).
• The democracy sourcebook. ed. by Robert Dahl, Ian Shapiro, and José Antonio Cheibub. (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003).
• Modern political analysis. with Bruce Stinebrickner. 6th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2003).
• Entrevista Sobre El Pluralismo. (México, D.F.; San Diego, CA : Fondo de Cultura Económica USA, 2003).
• De la démocratie. traduit de l'américain par Monique Berry. Traduction de : On democracy. ([Paris] : Nouveaux horizons, 2001).
• How democratic is the American Constitution? (New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001).
• On democracy. (New Haven : Yale Nota Bene, 2000).
• On democracy. (New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, c1998).
• Dahl reflects on a preface to democratic theory. Public affairs report. Vol. 38, no. 4 (July 1997).
• Toward democracy, a journey : reflections, 1940-1997. (Berkeley : Institute of Governmental Studies Press, University of California, Berkeley, 1997).
• Justifying democracy. Society. Vol. 32, no. 3 (Mar.-Apr. 1995).
• The New American political (dis)order : an essay. responses by Richard M. Abrams ... [et al.]. (Berkeley : Institute of Governmental Studies Press, 1994).
• Democracy and its critics. (New Haven : Yale University Press, 1991).
• After the revolution? : authority in a good society. Rev. ed. (New Haven : Yale University Press, c1990).
• Myth of the presidential mandate. Political science quarterly. Vol. 105, no. 3 (fall 1990).
• Democracy and its critics. (New Haven : Yale University Press, c1989).
• Democracy, liberty, and equality. (Oslo : Oxford ; New York : Norwegian University Press ; Distributed world-wide excluding Scandinavia by Oxford University Press, c1986).
• A preface to economic democracy. (Berkeley : University of California Press, reprint 1986).
• A preface to economic democracy. (Berkeley : University of California Press, c1985).
• Dilemmas of pluralist democracy : autonomy vs. control. (New Haven : Yale University Press, reprint 1983).
• Dilemmas of pluralist democracy : autonomy vs. control. (New Haven : Yale University Press, c1982).
• Democracy in the United States : promise and performance. 4th ed. (Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c1981).
• Politics, economics, and welfare : planning and politico-economic systems resolved into basic social processes. with Charles E. Lindblom ; with a new pref. by the authors. (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1976).
• Democracy in the United States : promise and performance. 3d ed. (Chicago : Rand McNally College Pub. Co., c1976).
• L'Analyse politique contemporaine. traduit de [la 2e éd. anglaise] par Iain Whyte ; introduction de Pierre Birnbaum. Traduction de : Modern political analysis. (Paris : R. Laffont, 1973).
• Size and democracy. with Edward R. Tufte. (Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1973).
• Regimes and oppositions. ed. Robert A. Dahl (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1973).
• Aprés la révolution : l'autorité dans une société modèle. traduit par Annie de Mèredieu. Traduction de : After the revolution: authority in a good society. (Paris; Calmann-Lévy, 1972).
• Democracy in the United States: promise and performance. 2d ed. (Chicago, Rand McNally [1972]).
• Polyarchy; participation and opposition. (New Haven : Yale University Press, 1971).
• After the revolution; authority in a good society. (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1970).
• L'Avenir de l'opposition dans les démocraties. Traduction de: Political oppositions in Western democracies. Traduit de l'américain par Maurice Luciani. (Paris : S.I.D.I.I.S. (impr. Firmin-Didot et Cie), 1966).
• Political oppositions in western democracies. ed. Robert A. Dahl. (New Haven : Yale University Press, 1968, c1966).
• Pluralist democracy in the United States: conflict and consent. (Chicago : Rand McNally [1967]).
• Congress and foreign policy. (New York : W.W. Norton [1964]).
• A preface to democratic theory. (Chicago : University of Chicago Press [1967, c1956]).
• Political oppositions in Western democracies. ed. Robert A. Dahl. (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1966).
• L'Avenir de l'opposition dans les démocraties. (Paris, S. E. D. E. I. S., 1966).
• Politics, economics, and welfare: planning and politico-economic systems resolved into basic social processes. with Charles E. Lindblom. (New York, Harper [1963]).
• Who governs? Democracy and power in an American city (Yale 1961)
• A preface to democratic theory: How does popular sovereignty function in America? (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1956).
• Congress and foreign policy. (New Haven : Yale Institute of International Studies, 1949).