TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dahl, Robert A.
AU  - Shapiro, Ian
TI  - On democracy
SN  - 9780300194463
U1  - 321.8 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Political science - Philosophy
KW  - Representative government and representation
N1  - Table of contents

Do we really need a guide?
Beginning
Where and how did democracy develop? a brief history
What lies ahead?
Ideal democracy
What is democracy?
Why democracy?
Why political equality I? Intrinsic equality
Why political equality II? Civil competence
Actual democracy
What political institutions does large-scale democracy require?
Varieties I: democracy on different scales
Varieties II: constitutions
Varieties III: parties and electoral systems
Conditions favorable and unfavorable
What underlying conditions favor democracy?
Why market-capitalism favors democracy
Why market-capitalism harms democracy
Unfinished journey
After On democracy / Ian Shapiro
Continuing the journey?
Democracy and inequality


N2  - Written by the preeminent democratic theorist of our time, this book explains the nature, value, and mechanics of democracy. This new edition includes two additional chapters by Ian Shapiro, Dahl’s successor as Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale and a leading contemporary authority on democracy. One chapter deals with the prospects for democracy in light of developments since the advent of the Arab spring in 2010. The other takes up the effects of inequality and money in politics on the quality of democracy, a subject that was of increasing concern to Dahl in his final years.

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300194463/democracy
ER  -