Robert Dahl

1. American political thinker of liberal & pluralist thoughts
2. Pluralist theory of democracy- political competition between interest groups
3. "Polyarchy": political power distributed in many people
4. One of chief proponents of “Behaviouralism”
5. One of the greatest theorists of Democracy
6. Gave the most famous definition of ‘Power’
7. Gave Decision making theory - how decisions are made in polyarchy

Books:

• A Preface to Democratic Theory - 1956
• Who Governs? - 1961
• Democracy and its Critiques - 1989

Power:

1. "A has power over B to the extent that A can get B to do something which B would not have done otherwise" - Most famous definition of ‘Power’