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Winner of the 1991 Elaine and David Spitz Book Award given by the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought for the best book published on liberal and/or democratic theory

Winner of the 1990 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award given by the American Political Science Association for the best book published in the United States during the previous year on government, politics, or international affairs

In this prize-winning book, one of the most prominent political theorists of our time makes a major 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 into 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.

“When Robert Dahl speaks about democracy, everyone should listen. With Democracy and Its Critics Dahl has produced a work destined to become another classic.”—Lucian W. Pye, American Political Science Review

“In this magisterial work [Dahl]… describe[s] what democracy means…; why our own democracy is still deeply flawed; and how we could reform it…. A work of extraordinary intelligence and, what is even rarer, a work of extraordinary wisdom.”—Robert N. Bellah, New York Times Book Review

Robert A. Dahl, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Sr. Research Scientist Sociology, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a corresponding member of the British Academy, and a past President of the American Political Science Association. His publications include Congress and Foreign Policy; Politics, Economics and Welfare (with C. E. Lindblom); A Preface to Democratic Theory; Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City; After the Revolution?; Polyarchy; Size and Democracy (with E. R. Tufte); Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy; A Preface to Economic Democracy; Controlling Nuclear Weapons: Democracy Versus Guardianship; Democracy and Its Critics; Toward Democracy: A Journey; On Democracy; How Democratic is the American Constitution?, Politica e virtu' , La teoria democratica de nuovo secolo, After the Goldrush: Growing up in Skagway and On Political Equality.

Part 1
The sources of modern democracy: the first transformation - to the democratic city-state;
toward the second transformation - republicanism, representation, and the logic of equality.
Part 2
Adversarial critics: anarchism; guardianship;
a critique of guardianship.
Part 3
A theory of the democratic process: justifications - the idea of equal intrinsic worth; personal autonomy;
a theory of the democratic process;
the problem of inclusion.
Part 4
Problems in the democratic process: majority rule and the democratic process; majority rule - practise;
process and substance; process versus process;
when is a people entitled to the democratic process?
Part 5 The limits and possibilities of democracy: the second democratic transformation - from the city-state to the nation-state;
democracy, polyarchy, and participation;
how polyarchy developed in some countries and not others;
is minority domination inevitable?;
pluralism, polyarchy and the common good; common good as process and substance.
Part 6
Toward a third transformation: democracy in tomorrow's world;
sketches for an advanced democratic country.
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