{"product_id":"what-is-democracy-and-how-do-we-study-it-9781487588571","title":"What Is Democracy and How Do We Study It","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409172341079,"sku":"9781487588571","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487588571.jpg?v=1730505752","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-is-democracy-and-how-do-we-study-it-9781487588571","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}