What Is Democracy and How Do We Study It?

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