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A Research On The Pluralist Democracy Of Robert Dahl

Posted on:2016-05-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q SuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2296330470454689Subject:Political Theory
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Democracy is an immortal theme as well as an eternal value pursuit of the politics.During the long history of the political development,people never stop the steps of pursuiting democracy. Since the Direct Democracy in polis of the ancient Greece,the democracy has lived in the world’s political development as various forms.Robert Dahl who focus on researching the Western Political Democracy and the behaviourism politics,is a outstanding political democratic theorist,Dahl’s Pluralist Democracy is regarded as an influential democratic theory.As the basic category of political research,democracy is divided into two aspects:the ideal of democracy and the fact of democracy.As a political ideal or value,democracy has five criteria,while as a specific political institution,the representative democracy is a typical form of political democracy,it’s essence of thought is the closest to the ideal criteria. The Pluralist Democracy is a relation between the democracy ideal and the democracy fact.The specific pluralist political institution is a choice which fits the ideal criteria,as well as the democracy ideal is investigating the political institution. So Robert Dahl regarded the Pluralist Democracy as an achievement of the democracy ideal,he connected the democracy ideal with the democracy fact,then became an exact explaination of the polical democracy of the modern America.In Dahl’s opinion,democracy is a domination of multiple minorities,which differs from other democratic viewpoints,it is also a breakthrough of traditional democratic forms.This Pluralist Democracy rooted in the Plural America where the power is plural and the intrests is disperse.Dahl realized the fact that this social structure must have an effect on the political structure.Then,he constracted a Pluralist Democracy theory which can explain the American society exactly based on the plural intrests groups.This theory interprets the trend of the development of modern western liberalism democracy,and reveals the essence of the running of western political democracy.Dahl’s pluralist democracy is based on his critics to the traditional political democratic theories.As a constrcting theory, Dahl’s pluralist democracy is a dynamical system,he not only point out a specific theory hypothesis,but also rethink and revise the ideas during the development of his theory. Pluralist Democracy theory emphasizes the thinking of political equality and power counterbalance,it is a complete set of regulation system which can explain the political reality in America objectively.Theory comes from practice, and can reflect and guide the further development and perfection of the practice. The Pluralist Democracy is derived in the political system of America, Dahl completed the theorization and systematization of the political rules,as a result,this Pluralist Democracy must have a positive affect on the western political democracy.Meanwhile,in terms of the world’s political democratization,the Pluralist Democracy theory provides a choice for the countries which is pursuiting the political democracy, it enlightens and enrichs the specific democratic forms all around the world.
Keywords/Search Tags:Robert Alan Dahl, Pluralist Democracy, Autonomic organization, Political equality
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