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Reimagining Democracy Studies: Charting a Course Towards a Pluralistic Paradigm in Democracy Research

Democracy
Democratisation
Political Theory
Demoicracy
Jean-Paul Gagnon
Faculty of Business, Government and Law, University of Canberra
Jean-Paul Gagnon
Faculty of Business, Government and Law, University of Canberra
Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Max Steuer
University of Münster
The Science of Democracy Beyond Disciplines

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Abstract

The dominant liberal-procedural paradigm in democracy studies is too narrow. Decades of critical theory has shown that most of the picture of democracy in the world is missed as a result of this framing constraint. The purpose of this multi-authored article is, then, to chart a more expansive course for studying democracy which, we hope, may in time spawn a pluralistic paradigm in democracy research.