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Comment Robert Dahl’s concept of deformed polyarchy.

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  • Democracy

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Deformed polyarchy describes a polyarchy whose formal guarantees survive while its working is bent by unequal economic power. The diagnosis comes from Robert A. Dahl's later work, Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy (1982) and A Preface to Economic Democracy (1985). The label became the standard shorthand for this neo-pluralist revision. It is pluralism auditing itself: elections…

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  • From Balanced Competition to Self-Critique
  • Anatomy of the Deformation
  • The Remedy: Economic Democracy
  • Critiques
  • Contemporary and Indian Relevance
  • Conclusion
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