Robert Alan Dahl (/dɑːl/; December 17, 1915 – February 5, 2014) was a political theorist and Sterling Professor of political science at Yale University. His established the pluralist theory of democracy—in which political outcomes are enacted through competitive, if unequal, interests group—and introduced "polyarchy" as a descriptor of actual democratic governance. An originator of "empirical theory" and known for advancing behavioralist...
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Robert Alan Dahl (/dɑːl/; December 17, 1915 – February 5, 2014) was a political theorist and Sterling Professor of political science at Yale University. His established the pluralist theory of democracy—in which political outcomes are enacted through competitive, if unequal, interests group—and introduced "polyarchy" as a descriptor of actual democratic governance. An originator of "empirical theory" and known for advancing behavioralist...