“Votes Count, but Resources Decide”

Democracy and Its Critics is a rigorous summary of the life work of one of America’s premier political scientists. It is also a timely antidote to the right’s equation of democracy with the “freedom” of an unrestrained capitalist market. In a reasoned yet passionate tone Dahl defends democracy as a system of political equality that promotes the freedom of individuals to live under laws of their own choosing. While upholding “polyarchy” (a society of ...