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31 Dahl also mounts a sustained criticism of what he calls the “Madisonian” theory of democracy, one of whose features is the deployment of legal and constitutional controls on what it sees as the potential excesses of democracy. 32 Here, too, then, is an example of Dahl’s readiness to criticize key elements of actually existing, in this case American, democracy. So far as the cognitive dimension of democracy is concerned, as in other respects, Dahl’s position is well within the framework established by Mill.

Sartori also addresses more directly than Dahl (who, as we have seen, remains in this regard largely within the progressive framework set out by Mill) the question of the cognitive dimension of democracy, which loomed large in Schumpeter’s skeptical argument against the classical theory. ” There is a mixture of causal and constitutive argument in this critique. In part, it rests on empirical claims about the actual extent of people’s political knowledge, and in this area Schumpeter was merely repeating age-old doubts about the intellectual capacity and public spiritedness of the common people.

Regarding information, Sartori makes three points. He begins by noting that there is no shortage in the quantity of political information that is available to the public.

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