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.Robert Alan Dahl (; December 17, 1915 – February 5, 2014) was a and at. He established the of —in which political outcomes are enacted through competitive, if unequal, interest groups—and introduced ' as a descriptor of actual democratic governance. An originator of 'empirical theory' and known for advancing characterizations of political power, Dahl's research focused on the nature of decision making in actual institutions, such as American cities.

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He is the most important scholar associated with the pluralist approach to describing and understanding both city and national power structures.Dahl received his undergraduate degree from the in 1936. He then went on to receive his Ph.D.

At Yale in 1940 and served on its political science faculty from 1946 to 1986. His influential early books include A Preface to Democratic Theory (1956), (1961), and Pluralist Democracy in the United States (1967), which presented pluralistic explanations for political rule in the United States. He was elected president of the in 1966. Contents.Writings In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was involved in an academic disagreement with over the nature of. Mills held that America's governments are in the grasp of a unitary and demographically narrow power elite. Dahl responded that there are many different elites involved, who have to work both in contention and in compromise with one another. If this is not democracy in a sense, Dahl contended, it is at least (or ).

In perhaps his best known work, (1961), he examines the power structures (both formal and informal) in the city of, as a case study, and finds that it supports this view.From the late 1960s onwards, his conclusions were challenged by scholars such as and (a friend and colleague of Dahl).In (2001) Dahl argued that the is much less democratic than it ought to be, given that its authors were operating from a position of 'profound ignorance' about the future. However, he adds that there is little or nothing that can be done about this 'short of some constitutional breakdown, which I neither foresee nor, certainly, wish for.' Influence terms One of his many contributions is his explication of the varieties of power, which he defines as A getting B to do what A wants. Dahl prefers the more neutral 'influence terms' (Michael G. (1925–1926). (1926–1927).

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