Assignment requirement
Research paper proposal and annotated bibliography
Research Topic: Are deliberative democracy better than representative democracy?
- a one-page single spaced paper proposal (Remember – It is a proposal: it indicates what you will be doing. The proposal is not intended to be a mini-version of your research paper)
- In the Introduction to your proposal
- A). Outline your research question
- What will you be exploring in your actual research paper?
- B). Clearly establish why your question is significant
- Why should we care about this topic?
- Provide a little background on the issue/controversy that you are weighing in on
- C). Outline your hypothesis
- What do you think you will find?
- What is the argument that you think you will be making in your actual research paper?
- The Body of the Proposal:
- Discuss how you will answer your question. Note: since this is political theory course. Please try to focus more on theories.
- Are you attempting to explain a single case/event?
- What actors, structures, institutions, evidence, will you focus on and why?
- Are you using a specific case/event as a way of testing a more general hypothesis/theory?
- What is it about the case/event that makes it a good test (is it a crucial case for example)?
- an annotated bibliography with a minimum of 8 peer reviewed academic sources.
For each source include 1 paragraph summary of the main argument and how it relates to your specific research question.
