This authoritative analysis introduces the key concepts used by contemporary political scientists. Rigorous, concise, and tightly argued, it makes use of everyday and historical examples to illustrate important and challenging conceptual material. Uses the core political phenomenon of influence as a springboard to explaining politics, government, state, political systems, democracy, and the like. Explores the democratic political system and what has been learned about the conditions that facilitate or undermine democracy. Is updated throughout to treat recent developments in world events and political analysis. Discusses the important differences between democratic and nondemocratic systems. For anyone interested in learning more about how political systems and governments work.

Modern Political Analysis

Politics & Social Sciences

DAHL, ROBERT

Stinebrickner,Bruce

Politics & Government

Pearson

A Preface to Democratic Theory

University of Chicago Press

Dilemmas of a Pluralist Democracy

Yale Univ Pr

Pluralist Democracy in the United States: Conflict and Consent by robert dahl (1967-05-03)

Rand-McNally

About the Book In January 1926 the ship carrying Robert Dahl streamed into the harbor in Skagway, Alaska. The ten-year-old boy had been traveling for over a week with his mother and two brothers from the tiny town in northwest Iowa where he was born. As the ship's crew prepared to dock, the brothers eagerly scanned the wharf for a glimpse of their father, who had arrived a few weeks earlier to become the town's only physician. Driven by hopes of finding Yukon gold, thousands had once passed through Skagway. By the time of the Dahl family's arrival in 1926, the population had shrunk to five hundred. Although some buildings remaining from the Gold Rush days made sections of Skagway look like a ghost town, the young boy from the plains of Iowa was entranced by the wild beauty of the surrounding mountains, which he would explore in the years to come. In this highly personal tale of Robert Dahl's years in Skagway, we meet the people of the town --- at school, at work, at play, hunting and fishing. We meet town 'characters," a few remaining from the Gold Rush days, others whose drifting had ended in Skagway. We meet Tlingit Indians, who were made 'outcasts in their own land" by the visible and invisible barriers of small-town life. The author concludes with the hope that 'this lovely piece of our world will be preserved as long as human beings, and our fellow creatures who inhabit those splendid mountains, valleys, forests, rivers, streams, and, yes, even the glaciers, continue to live on this earth.

After The Gold Rush: Growing Up In Skagway

Biographies & Memoirs

Xlibris, Corp.

About the Book In January 1926 the ship carrying Robert Dahl streamed into the harbor in Skagway, Alaska. The ten-year-old boy had been traveling for over a week with his mother and two brothers from the tiny town in northwest Iowa where he was born. As the ship's crew prepared to dock, the brothers eagerly scanned the wharf for a glimpse of their father, who had arrived a few weeks earlier to become the town's only physician. Driven by hopes of finding Yukon gold, thousands had once passed through Skagway. By the time of the Dahl family's arrival in 1926, the population had shrunk to five hundred. Although some buildings remaining from the Gold Rush days made sections of Skagway look like a ghost town, the young boy from the plains of Iowa was entranced by the wild beauty of the surrounding mountains, which he would explore in the years to come. In this highly personal tale of Robert Dahl's years in Skagway, we meet the people of the town --- at school, at work, at play, hunting and fishing. We meet town 'characters," a few remaining from the Gold Rush days, others whose drifting had ended in Skagway. We meet Tlingit Indians, who were made 'outcasts in their own land" by the visible and invisible barriers of small-town life. The author concludes with the hope that 'this lovely piece of our world will be preserved as long as human beings, and our fellow creatures who inhabit those splendid mountains, valleys, forests, rivers, streams, and, yes, even the glaciers, continue to live on this earth.

After The Gold Rush: Growing Up in Skagway

These letters recount the day-to-day experiences of Robert Dahl during his year in Europe as part of the U.S. Army. He entered battle in October 1944 as a reconnaissance officer in the 71st Infantry Regiment, fighting almost continuously until the war’s end in May 1945. He then worked in the post-war military administration of Germany until he was able to return home in the fall of that year. These letters are unique in presenting the experience of combat as it happened. War is sometimes described as long periods of tedium interspersed with moments of intense fear. Because of Dahl’s deep intellect and curiosity, these letters are by no means tedious. He fills his down time reading whatever he can get his hands on  American magazines, French political broadsheets, Greek plays  and in the letters he comments and philosophizes not only on what he reads but what he sees around him and the events of the day. Of course, frequently he must go to work,” leading his men across the front lines to scout enemy positions, sometimes facing enemy fire. Because he was writing these letters to his wife, his accounts are by and large low key. But he eloquently conveys the unique experience of combat and the intense bonds formed between those that fight together. After the end of the war Dahl was recruited to work for the Allied Control Commission, based in Frankfurt. From this vantage point  investigating Nazi assets  he observes the state of Germany  and Germans  in the months after the war’s end. Characteristically, he also surveys the range of opinions about how Germany should be treated by the victors. Overall, these letters are about much more than just combat; beyond hope and fear, they are a snapshot of a world-historical moment.

From Boston to Berlin: One Man's War in Letters (1)

History

Military

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