Experiential education, service learning in particular, offers one pedagogy for teaching democracy. This paper presents a rationale for teaching democracy through service learning and provides general and specific guidelines for accomplishing the goal. Models of service learning are described that teachers can incorporate into classroom assignments and other parts of the curriculum. Action research, one form of service learning, integrates community service and the democratic curriculum particularly well. Action research provides political scientists with inter-disciplinary research methods allied with critical theory. Service learning offers political scientists pedagogies to disseminate to other departments and schools. These methods for civic education express the goals of the traditional liberal arts and promote interdisciplinary study of power and equality. Two service learning programs at the University of Richmond are described, LINCS (Learning in Community Settings) and COMPS (Community Problem Solving Seminar). (EH)