The Problem of Civic Competence

Issue Date October 1992
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Page Numbers 45-59
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About the Author

Robert A. Dahl, Sterling Professor of Political Science (emeritus) at Yale University, is one of the world’s best-known political scientists. Among his many prominent books are A Preface to Democratic Theory (1956), Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition (1971), and Democracy and Its Critics (1989).

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