Foreword by Professor Arend Lijphart -- Part I: Decision-Making -- 1 The Myths of Majority Rule -- 2 Pluralist Decision-Maing -- Part II:  Elections -- 3 "Party-ocracies" -- 4 The Candid Candidate -- Part III: The Art of Governance -- 5 The Elected Dictator -- 6 Governance -- Appendices -- Chronology -- References -- Index.

Defining Democracy looks both at the theory of why and the history of how different voting procedures have come to be used – or not, as the case may be – in the three fields of democratic structures: firstly, in decision-making, both in society at large and in the elected chamber; secondly, in elections to and within those chambers; and thirdly, in the various forms of governance, from no-party to multi-party and all-party, which have emerged as a result.