"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."
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Giovanni Sartori
Giovanni Sartori (13 May 1924 – 4 April 2017) was an Italian political scientist.
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