Abstract
Robert · A ·Dahl(1915 -), the contemporary US renowned political scientist, is main representative of Western important democratic theoretician and pluralism democratic theory. This article introduced emphatically his criticism of Madison’s “separation of powers” and Rousseau’s “people's sovereignty”, analyzed Dahl’s basic democratic theory, which includes “the multi-dimensional society”, “the polyarchy”, the multi-dimensional democracy difficult position as well as the procedure democracy and so on, and proposed following three aspect enlightenment: 1st, the multi-dimensional organization carries on expression_r_r and conformity to social benefit, is helpful to represent the majority person's will in output public policy-making; 2nd, the multi-dimensional organization's existence can effectively restrict public authority, and prevent abuse of power ; 3rd, because of procedure democracy may guarantee result fair, therefore we must pursue it as our political value. This article also pondered whether did multi-dimensional achieve tolerant of each other. I hoped this article could provide the model for our country's democracy construction to a certain extent.
Key word: Robert · A ·Dahl, Pluralism democracy, Polyarchy, People's sovereignty
