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Robert Alan Dahl ( / dɑːl /; December 17, 1915 – February 5, 2014) was an American political theorist and Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
Robert A. Dahl (born December 17, 1915, Inwood, Iowa, U.S.—died February 5, 2014, Hamden, Connecticut) American political scientist and educator. A leading theorist of political pluralism, Dahl stressed the role in politics played by associations, groups, and organizations.
Feb 8, 2014 · Robert A. Dahl, a political scientist who was widely regarded as his profession’s most distinguished student of democratic government, died on Wednesday in Hamden, Conn. He was 98. His...
Jul 21, 2015 · Whether measured in absolute numbers or as a proportion of the world’s population, more people lived in democracies than ever before. And although non-democratic regimes still outnumbered democracies (a ratio that would soon reverse itself), Dahl identified an unprecedented sixty-five democracies.
Elected to the NAS, 1972. Robert A. Dahl was widely appreciated as the world’s leading student of the theory and practice of democracy. With others, he ushered Yale University’s Political Science Department into intellectual leadership of the discipline in the post-World War II period.
Oct 1, 2008 · Robert A. Dahl. Yale University Press, Oct 1, 2008 - Political Science - 397 pages. In this prize-winning book, one of the most prominent political theorists of our time makes a major statement...
Jan 1, 2022 · Robert A. Dahl is primarily known as one of the world’s leading scholars on democracy. He belongs to the pluralist school that sees political life as marked by cooperation and conflict between many societal actors, none of whom are capable of dominating all other actors.
