Robert Alan Dahl (born 17 December 1915) is an American political researcher of Norwegian descent. He is Professor Emeritus at Yale College, as well as he takes part in an age of over 90 years still in the American political science dispute.
Dahl's probably most famous publication is Who govern? from 1961. Right here he analyzed thoroughly the official as well as casual power networks in New Haven, Connecticut, and ended that there are a variety of power teams as well as power elites who are both in dispute and teamwork with each various other. From these results Dahl created the principle Polyarchy, as a term for the modern Western democracies. Via several publications he has actually since elaborated and tested this idea and also, among other points, asked for a capitalism in which the economic climate goes through autonomous choice, partially based on the experience of Yugoslavia. In his publication After the Revolution took Dahl additionally addressed in the plan to the system border and advanced movements and also asked the question of exactly how a socialist democratic system should be arranged.
Recently, Dahl's study took on a much more downhearted tone. In How Democratic Is the American Constitution? from 2001 make Dahl a critical review of the U.S. Constitution, and also concludes that it has more prospective, both real and undemocratic elements. Particularly important is the existence of the Senate as well as Senate elections, organizations, Dahl thinks were introduced to prevent the real public opinion would certainly be advancement in politics. But various other elements of the American Constitution and political custom is slammed for having actually autonomous imperfections compared with European Polyarchy. In his latest publication, On Political Equality Dahl from 2006 binds together strings from numerous earlier books to warn against a circumstance where enhanced economic and worldly inequality leads to enhanced political inequality.
Dahl held Stein Rokkan Memorial Lecture in 1984 and also in 1995 got the distinguished Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science.
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