Death of Robert A. Dahl, Ph.D.

December 17, 1915 - February 5, 2014
Hamden, Connecticut | Age 98

Political scientist dies at 98
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HILLEL ITALIE, The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert A. Dahl, an esteemed and influential political scientist who in such books as "Who Governs?" championed democracy in theory and critiqued it in practice, has died. He was 98.

A professor emeritus at Yale University, Dahl died Wednesday at a nursing home in Hamden, Conn., according to his daughter Sara Connor.

His career lasted for more than half a century, but he was best known for the 1961 publication "Who Governs?"...

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