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Robert A. Dahl, fallecido en 2014 a los 98 años, en este breve y accesible libro hace un breve repaso histórico, expone de modo claro y nítido qué es la democracia, cuáles son sus elementos e instituciones imprescindibles y las condiciones más y menos favorables para su aparición y desarrollo.
Defiende la representación como hecho inseparable de la democracia, y única posibilidad a partir de niveles de población cada vez más elevados, amén de una mayor complejidad social.
Como politólogo, me parece un magnífico ejemplo de defensa de la democracia liberal y advertencia contra los cantos de sirena del populismo y de aquellos que defienden una democracia asamblearia que resulta impracticable en la práctica: todo sistema democrático tiende a la representación, ya que no todo el mundo está dispuesto o preparado para formar parte del juego. Por otro lado, de modo lógico la gente que comparta interés tenderá a delegar en uno o varios individuos la responsabilidad de su defensa en la esfera pública.

Dahl se nam ctenarum ve sve knize snazi vysvetlit, co to demokracie vlastne je, jeji vyhody a nevyhody, porovnava ji s jinymi rezimi atd. Samozrejme kazdy z nas ma jiz nejakou predstavu o demokracii. Tato kniha je urcena jak pro ty z nas, kteri o demokracii vedi malo, tak i pro ty, kteri toho vedi hodne. V kazde kapitole se Dahl obraci ke ctenari s ruznymi otazkami, ktery vetsinou zpochybni to, co si ctenar na predchozich stranach precetl, ale nasledne vse krasne vysvetli. Myslim, ze kniha obohati nejakym zpusobem kazdeho z nas - kazdeho bez rozdilu.

Surprisingly really engaging!

Yes, M.K. Elmo, this is the one you gave me LAST year! Sorry.....At only 199 pages of text, the book is, as reviewers here and on the cover have noted, concise, accessible, understandable, general, and elegant. One person thought it was condescending but I did not find it so. The ascription of "authoritative", however, is lacking. Yes, Dahl admits to America's sins in foreign policy and slavery, but they sound more like pecadillos than the atrocities that they really were -- and still are. Dahl CANNOT be read without Zinn, just like Freddy Bastiat cannot be read without Chomsky, and Luddy von Mises must be read with Marx (Lasalle or DeLeon, etc.). If all small d democrats were as wise as Dahl and if all businesspeople were Ben & Jerry and not Kenneth Lay, then maybe I would not have to preface myself as being a Social Democrat. I appreciate the gift of this book and I am glad I read it, but it CANNOT be read stand-alone. (Yes, thanks M. K. Elmo!)

An excellent, concise, and occasionally eloquent overview of democracy: what it is, why it's good, and challenges it faces. This is a simple, down-to-earth, undergraduate-level text. Dahl falters slightly in his chapter about why market-capitalism favors democracy: he omits any mention of the importance of economic freedom as a corollary to political freedom, and underemphasizes the significance of the market as a check and balance against overweening government. Overall, however, Dahl gets just about everything exactly right.

As someone who grew up knowing little about democracy or major forms of government, I found Dahl's book immensely helpful and interesting. He does a brilliant job of answering "what," "how,"and "why" about democracy. The prose is concise and the structure of the book makes it very easy to follow along and take notes. Also helpful is the "further reading" list at the end of the book that guides me to delve deeper into certain topics of democracy. A very good introductory book overall. Recommended for anyone wishing to learn the basics of democracy.

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When one of my appliances or work related machinery breaks down I like to dig up the users manual and see if it has any diagnostic checks to help me debug the situation. That’s why I picked out this particular book. I do recommend it. I found it illuminating, here in the shadow of The Recent Stupidity.

One of Dahl’s 10 advantages of democracy over its alternatives is “9. Modern representative democracies do not fight wars with one another.” He admits that it’s more an observation of events of the 20th century rather than a logical conclusion drawn from democratic principles. He does offer some vague causal theories but they’re not as rigorous as his other points in the list. State sponsored cyberattacks and social media disinformation campaigns weren’t a thing when he originally penned this, and I have to wonder, were he to revise it today would he remove this one from his list of benefits. Or would he stand by it, reasoning that the world is just less democratic overall than it used to be.

Should have read this when I was 18 too...

Esto, si es que se le puede llamar libro, es el documento escrito más vergonzoso, cínico e incoherente que he tenido la desgracia de leer.

Es una exposición clara pero muy básica, y eso se nota a la hora de leer críticamente los argumentos. Ninguna de las ideas es especialmente iluminadora, si bien se agradece el marco bien cohesionado que proporciona.