On Dahl’s Idea Of Economic Democracy

Democracy,which has a history of more than 2,500 years,has attracted much attention since the Greek historian Herodotus.The forms of democracy are also undergoing constant change.As a famous contemporary political scientist,Dahl proposed the pluralist democracy at first in the process of examining political.Robert Dahl absorbed the democratic ideas and the reality of consideration from the Tocqueville’s "Democracy in America" and put forward the concept of economic democracy,namely in the enterprise internal autonomous.The thought of Dahl about economic democracy is based on three pairs of relations,equality and freedom,equality and economic freedom,democracy and economic order.Dahl focused on againsting several economic democracy views: such as Democracy is not suitable for the enterprise;The policies in the enterprise are not constrainting on people;Democracy in the enterprise can undermine private property rights.Meanwhile,Dahl not only argued the superiority about capital accumulation,efficiency,innovation,to solve the problem of unemployment,investment in the enterprises,but also provided two ways about the transformation from modern capitalism to autonomous.The thought of Economic democracy opened up a new field of vision for the democratic thoughts,playing a great role in promoting the autonomous which conformed the standard,providing the path for us to explore the reform and development of enterprises.For example,the success of Meng Long cooperation company.But there is no doubt that many arguments were based on the assumption enterprises,and there is no cases to support the conclusions which were based on assuming.Therefore,there are a lot of limitations on the thought of economic democracy.