On Democracy.(Review) (book review)

On Democracy. By Robert A. Dahl. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. 217p. $20.00.

Robert Dahl offers a masterful distillation of his views on democratic theory and practice, views that have developed over five decades of influential work. The merit of this book is to see it all in compact and accessible form: from first principles to democratic practice around the world.

Dahl guides the reader on an immense journey from the ancient Greeks, to the Roman Republic, the city states of Venice and Florence, local assemblies in Scandinavia, the British development of ...

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