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Every attempt to develop systematic democratic theory has to confront the elementary fact that democracy can be, and in practice has been, interpreted as an ideal political system, perhaps (or probably, or certainly) unattainable in full, and also as an actual, historically existing system, a set of political institutions or processes that are attainable at least under some limiting conditions.
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Because intelligent choices of public policies require both technical understanding and sensitivity to the values involved, in modern democratic countries a form of specialized intellectual activity has evolved that tends to combine both aspects of policy.
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It would be more realistic to think of all economic enterprise as a public service. Thought of in this perspective, a private economy is a contradiction in terms. Every economy is a public or social (not socialist) economy.
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That democratization has never closely approached its theoretical limits, either in the government of the state or in the government of other institutions, is revealed in the three great historical movement toward democratizing the state.
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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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