TY - BOOK AU - Dahl, Robert A. TI - Democracy and its critics SN - 9780300049381 U1 - 321.8DAH PY - 1989/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Democracy N1 - Includes index N2 - In this book, one of the most prominent political theorists of our era makes a statement about what democracy is and why it is important. Robert Dahl examines the most basic assumptions of democratic theory, tests them against the questions raised by its critics, and recasts the theory of democracy in a new and coherent whole. He concludes by discussing the directions in which democracy must move if advanced democratic states are to exist in the future ER -