“Continuing his career-long exploration of modern democracy, Dahl addresses a question
that has long vexed students of political theory: the place of independent organizations …

This essay offers an interpretation of the evolution of Robert Dahl's influential theory of
polyarchal democracy. Both Dahl and his critics have in different ways and for different …

In this major revisionist study, Eric A. Nordlinger poses two critical questions about
democratic politics. How are the public policy decisions of the democratic state in America …

Professor Pennock launches an encyclopedic study that evaluates and ultimately
synthesizes a variety of democratic theories. After defining democracy and examining the …

In this philosophically sophisticated textbook analysis of democracy, JL Hyland explores in
depth the concept which has come to reign supreme in the pantheon of political ideas. He …

The study of politics is itself a political act, containing little that is neutral. True, we can all
agree on certain neutral facts about the structure of government and the like. However, the …

I want to defend a" minimalist," Schumpeterian, conception of democracy, by minimalist,
Popperian, standards. In Schumpeter's (1942) conception, democracy is just a system in …

" A tightly woven explanation of the conditions under which cultures that do not tolerate
political opposition may be transformed into societies that do."—Foreign Affairs"[Dahl's] …

Joji Watanuki argued that the nations of Europe, North America, and Japan confronted a"
crisis of democracy."'Their starting point was a vision, widespread during the 1960s and …

Larry Diamond is coeditor of the Journal of Democracy, codirector of the National
Endowment for Democracy's International Forum for Democratic Studies, and a senior fellow …