Political Science · Political Theory
Who said, 'A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience'?
ARobert Dahl
BJohn Dewey ✓ Correct
CAlexis de Tocqueville
DFriedrich Hayek
Correct answer: (B) John Dewey — The statement is by John Dewey, so the answer is Dewey.
Explanation
★The statement is by John Dewey, so the answer is Dewey.
★Dewey was an American pragmatist philosopher and educationist.
★He set out this idea in Democracy and Education in 1916.
★For Dewey, democracy is a way of living together, not merely a system of voting.
★It rests on shared communication, cooperation and common experience among citizens.
★Education is therefore central to democracy as a moral and social form of life.
★Robert Dahl by contrast gave the empirical theory of polyarchy.
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