Public Law and Democracy in the United Kingdom and the United States of AmericaThis study brings the fruits of writings in political science and political theory to bear on the issues of public law. A critical examination of the centralist democratic views of Dicey is followed by an extensive discussion of a variety of pluralist theories of democracy, tracing their development in the U. S. from the early twentieth century to their more sophisticated recent versions. A similar analysis is applied to a cross section of English