Tocqueville pessimistically predicted that liberty and equality would be incompatible ideas. Robert Dahl, author of the classic A Preface to Democratic Theory,
This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different political institutions becaus
The emergence of new democracies in Eastern Europe has raised anew the question of the relationship between economic reform and political liberalization. Should
*** Winner of the Myrdal Prize for Evolutionary Political Economy *** The last few years have seen the spectacular failure of market fundamentalism in Europe an
Robert Dahl's Preface helped launch democratic theory fifty years ago as a new area of study in political science, and it remains the standard introduction to t