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There are many different ways to do political science research. This book takes a core question that motivates research in political science - what is democracy? - and presents, in a single volume, original research demonstrating a variety of approaches to studying it. The approaches and related methods covered by the chapters in this book include normative political theory, positivist quantitative analysis, behaviouralism, critical theory, post-structuralism, historical institutionalism, process tracing, case studies, and literature reviews. Readers are confronted with the different assumptions that researchers make when entering the research process and can compare and contrast the many different ways that a single question can be studied . This book will be enlightening for students of democracy as well as those interested in research design and methodological approaches.
Contents
1. Approaching the Study of Democracy 
Cameron D. Anderson, Western University and Laura B. Stephenson, Western University
 Part I - Democracy in Theory: Normative Approaches
 2. Democracy: What and Why 
Charles Jones, Western University
 3. Is Majority Rule Democratic? 
Richard Vernon, Western University
 Part II - Analyzing Democracy: Positivist Approaches 
 4. Evaluating a Democracy: Are Citizens Engaged? 
Cameron D. Anderson, Western University and Laura B. Stephenson, Western University
 5. Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy 
David Armstrong, Western University
 6. A Democratic Continuum? 
Bruce Morrison, Western University
 7. Membership Rules for Democratic Communities: Canada and the United States 
Andrew Sancton, Western University and Christopher Alcantara, Western University
 8. Representation and the Practice of Politics 
Rob Leone, Western University and Josh Morgan, City Councilor, London, Ontario
 9. The Democratic Dimensions of Specialized Governments 
Joseph Lyons, Western University
 Part III - Interpreting Democracy: Critical and Post-modern Approaches
 10. Hatred of Democracy 
Dan Bousfield, Western University
 11. Rethinking Democracy 
Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Western University

              

