Robert A. Dahl

Robert A. Dahl was a Sterling professor of political science at Yale University. His work on political theory and practice spanned some six decades. He authored two dozen books, Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City (1961) being the best well known, and hundreds of scholarly articles. He was the first recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize, created in 1995 to remedy the lack of a Nobel Prize for Political Science, among many other awards and honorary degrees.