Quote of the day
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
Robert A. Dahl

Born: December 17, 1915
Died: February 5, 2014 (aged 98)
Bio: Robert Alan Dahl was a political theorist and Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
Known for:
- Who Governs? (1961)
- Democracy and Its Critics (1989)
- How Democratic Is the American Constitution? (2001)
- On Democracy (1998)
- Preface to economic democracy (1956)
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