Moreover, Dahl’s normative commitment to political equality — the idea that each person’s preferences should count equally — provides a yardstick for judging real-world systems. While he never naively claimed that any existing system fully achieves this ideal, he insisted that it is both a coherent standard and a feasible aspiration.
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