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Giovanni Sartori was an Italian political scientist specialized in the study of democracy and comparative politics. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. May 1924 – 4. April 2017
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“To avoid starting out on the wrong foot we must keep in mind, then, that (a) the democratic ideal does not define the democratic reality and, vice versa, a real democracy is not, and cannot be, the same as an ideal one; and that (b) democracy results from, and is shaped by, the interactions between its ideals and its reality, the pull of an ought and the resistance of an is.”

Giovanni Sartori

The Theory of Democracy Revisited (1987), 1. Can Democracy Be Just Anyting?

“Communism and socialism can be connected to a single major author—Marx—and assessed as deviations from, and implementations or negations of, Marx. Democracy is not amenable to a similar treatment; the towering, single major author on democracy does not exist.”

Giovanni Sartori

The Theory of Democracy Revisited (1987), 1. Can Democracy Be Just Anyting?

“What democracy is cannot be separated from what democracy should be.”

Giovanni Sartori

The Theory of Democracy Revisited (1987), 1. Can Democracy Be Just Anyting?

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