Center for the Study of Democracy

The core of the paper argues that public policy is directly related to the character of democracy and the definition of citizenship. My argument begins with some contextual conditions that I believe strongly argue for increased attention to the linkage between public policy and democracy. It then explores briefly the meaning, characteristics, and necessary condition of democracy, and next posits some hypothetical linkages between democratic conditions and public policy content or design. The bulk of this paper develops these pathways or linkages as a subject matter for political science.