The Library
Theorizing about democracy
Tools
Tools
Tools
Saward, Michael (2019) Theorizing about democracy. Democratic Theory, 6 (2). pp. 1-11. doi:10.3167/dt.2019.060202
|
PDF
WRAP-theorizing-democracy-Saward-2019 .pdf - Accepted Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Download (998Kb) | Preview |
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/dt.2019.060202
Abstract
How can we theorize about democracy? We can identify the major topics that form the focus of democratic theorists (and others traversing the field), such as democracy’s meaning and value. This article focuses on the methodological lenses through which the topics have been and can be viewed. Different lenses bring into focus different phenomena, questions, and problems of democracy. It is argued that the lenses that bring conventional democratic theory approaches into view can provide an unnecessarily narrow and restrictive perspective. Donning different methodological lenses can introduce alternative perspectives, such as renewed attention to value pluralism and the “everyday.” The article sketches four “circles” that capture different potential types of and sources for theoretical work, some of them radically unconventional. It concludes by discussing the specific example of how methods and assumptions of design theory can prompt promising new approaches to theorizing about democracy.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Democracy | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Democratic Theory | ||||||
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2332-8894 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 1 December 2019 | ||||||
| Dates: |
|
||||||
| Volume: | 6 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-11 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.3167/dt.2019.060202 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Publisher Statement: | This is a post–peer-review, precopyedited version of an article published in Democratic Theory. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Saward, Michael (2019) Theorizing about democracy. Democratic Theory, 6 (2). pp. 1-11 is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/dt.2019.060202 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
