Các tác phẩm nổi tiếng nhất của Dahl gồm:

• 1953 – Politics, Economics, and Welfare (với Charles E. Lindblom)
• 1956 – A Preface to Democratic Theory (xuất bản lần gần nhất năm 2006)
• 1957 – Decision-Making in a Democracy: The Supreme Court as a National Policy-Maker
• 1960 – Social science research on business: product and potential
• 1961 – Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City
• 1963 – Modern Political Analysis
• 1966 – Political oppositions in Western Democracies
• 1968 – Pluralist democracy in the United States: conflict and consent
• 1970 – After the Revolution?: Authority in a good society
• 1971 – Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition
• 1973 – Size and Democracy (with Edward R. Tufte)
• 1983 – Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy: Autonomy vs. Control
• 1985 – A Preface to Economic Democracy
• 1985 – Controlling Nuclear Weapons: Democracy versus Guardianship
• 1989 – Democracy and Its Critics
• 1997 – Toward Democracy - a Journey: Reflections, 1940-1997
• 1998 – On Democracy
• 2002 – How Democratic Is the American Constitution?
• 2003 – The Democracy Sourcebook. (An anthology edited by Robert A. Dahl, Ian Shapiro and José Antonio Cheibub)
• 2005 – After The Gold Rush
• 2006 – On Political Equality