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Robert A. Dahl and Charles E. Lindblom.Politics, Economics, and Welfare. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1993 (originally published in 1953).
Robert A. Dahl.A Preface to Democratic Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.
Robert A. Dahl.Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1961.
Robert A. Dahl.Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1971.
Robert A. Dahl and Edward R. Tuft.Size and Democracy. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1973.
Robert A. Dahl.A Preface to Economic Democracy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985.
Robert A. Dahl.Democracy and Its Critics. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1989.
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In addition to the titles listed in the further readings, he has written many other works, including Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracyand Democracy, Liberty and Equality.
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Dahl, R.A. Justifying democracy. Society 32, 43–49 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02693307
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