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Teaching Democracy: A Survey of Courses in Democratic Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2004

Ronald J. Terchek
Ronald J. Terchek
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Professor emeritus in the Government and Politics Department at the University of Maryland, College Park (rterchek@gvpt.umd.edu; www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/terchek). He is the author of Republican Paradoxes and Liberal Anxieties: Retrieving Neglected Fragments of Political Theory and Gandhi: Struggling for Autonomy, and co-editor (with Thomas C. Conte) of Theories of Democracy: A Reader. In 2000, he was named the University of Maryland's Mentor of the Year
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Democratic theory is an exciting field today, both in its rich, textured, abundant research and in the varied courses taught at American colleges and universities. We use its subject matter as a benchmark to judge the politics of the United States as well as that of other countries. The scope of research in this subfield has expanded debates about the meanings, purposes, and reach of democracy, and it raises questions for instructors about what to teach. This essay examines material taught in undergraduate courses and graduate seminars on democratic theory. How these courses are put together reflects what instructors hope to achieve and—on a larger scale—the state of debate among scholars in the subfield.

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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 2003 , pp. 147 - 155
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2003 by the American Political Science Association

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