On Democracy

Reviews / Votes

"The two new chapters are extremely useful as they address in detail three compelling challenges to democracy, which Dahl had noted but not addressed at length. I also very much like the Preface as it will help my students put Dahl into a larger context and help them better understand the history of political science."-Alana Jeydel, American River College

"The introduction will help readers see On Democracy in the context of Dahl's entire body of work, and will give students a sense of his importance to the field of modern political science."-Sally Howard, Concord University

"The new chapters succeed in both investigating the empirical basis of certain claims in the text, and thoughtfully evaluating the future of democracy and democratization in the context of the findings. As someone who has long assigned On Democracy to my students, I welcome this extension of the work and look forward to discussing it with my students."-David Faris, Roosevelt University

"Robert A. Dahl's On Democracy admirably synthesized the contributions of the world's leading democratic theorist of the twentieth century. Now Ian Shapiro intelligently carries Dahl's queries and concerns into our own century."-Robert D. Putnam, author of Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

"The republication of Dahl's classic work is an important event, enriched by the addition of a valuable preface on Dahl's work, two new chapters, and an important appendix, all by the eminent democracy scholar Ian Shapiro."-Donald L. Horowitz, author of Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia