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• Associations, institutions, etc.
• Sociological aspects

• Psychology of the Club: A Study in Social Psychology (dissertation reprinted from The Pedagogical Seminary, Sept. 1911), by Louis D. Hartson (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Class of 2014: Preserving Access to California Higher Education, by George S. Park and Robert J. Lempert (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Andrew C. Comrie (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Handbook for Chairmen of Panels (2006), by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)
• Handbook for Chairmen of Bills Committees, by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)

• Constitution of the People's Republic of China, by China (HTML at lehmanlaw.com)

• House Rules (2008), by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)
• Rules of Procedure of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (2008), by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)

• Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1987), ed. by Victor C. Falkenheim (HTML at Project MUSE)

• Civil Liberties and Social Order: Consultation Document (1997), by Hong Kong (China) Chief Executive's Office (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Umbrella Movement: End Politically Motivated Prosecutions in Hong Kong (in English and Chinese; 2018), by Amnesty International (PDF files at amnesty.org)

• Umbrella Movement: End Politically Motivated Prosecutions in Hong Kong (in English and Chinese; 2018), by Amnesty International (PDF files at amnesty.org)

• The Invisible Hand on Hong Kong's Media (2016), by Reporters Without Borders (PDF with commentary at rdf.org)

• China Rights Forum (published in New York by Human Rights in China; issues online 1999-2014) (partial serial archives)

• China's Censorship of the Internet and Social Media, the Human Toll and Trade Impact: Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, First Session, November 17, 2011 (Washington: GPO, 2012), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (page images at HathiTrust)

• Media Freedom in China: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, June 24, 2002 (Washington: GPO, 2002), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • PDF and text at cecc.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• China's Forbidden Zones: Shutting the Media out of Tibet and Other "Sensitive" Stories (2008), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• "You Will be Harassed and Detained": Media Freedoms Under Assault in China Ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (2007), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• China's Pursuit of a New World Media Order (in English, Chinese, and French; 2019), by Reporters Without Borders (PDF files with commentary at rsf.org)
• Media Freedom in China: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, June 24, 2002 (Washington: GPO, 2002), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • PDF and text at cecc.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Party's Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World (Washington: Center for International Media Assistance, National Endowment for Democracy, 2013), by Sarah G. Cook (PDF at ned.org)

• China's Far West, Conditions in Xinjiang One Year After Demonstrations and Riots: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session, July 19, 2010 (Washington: GPO, 2010), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • PDF and text at ccec.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Party's Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World (Washington: Center for International Media Assistance, National Endowment for Democracy, 2013), by Sarah G. Cook (PDF at ned.org)
• China's Censorship of the Internet and Social Media, the Human Toll and Trade Impact: Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, First Session, November 17, 2011 (Washington: GPO, 2012), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (page images at HathiTrust)

• China's Algorithms of Repression: Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang Police Mass Surveillance App (in English, Chinese, Arabic, and other languages; New York: Human Rights Watch, 2019), by Maya Wang (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at hrw.org)

• Fight Against Terrorism and Extremism in Xinjiang: Truth and Facts (published in English by the UN OHCHR, redacted, as an appendix to its Assessment of the Human Rights Situtation; 2022), by Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) (PDF at ohchr.org)

• China's Role in Asia and the World Economy: Fostering Stability and Growth (2003), ed. by Jan Joost Teunissen (PDF files with commentary at fondad.org)

• Civil Liberties and Social Order: Consultation Document (1997), by Hong Kong (China) Chief Executive's Office (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Maine Register, State Year-Book and Legislative Manual (partial serial archives)

• Guidelines for Laws Affecting Civic Organizations (second edition, 2004), by Leon E. Irish, Robert Kushen, and Karla W. Simon (PDF with commentary at soros.org)

• Silent Revolution: Creating and Managing Social Enterprises (c2002), by Rory Ridley-Duff
  • PDF at roryridleyduff.com
  • Javascript-dependent HTML at scribd.com
• The Art of Board Membership (New York: Association Press, 1950), by Roy Sorenson, contrib. by Harper Sibley, illust. by George Maurice Lichty (page images at HathiTrust)

• Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, As Amended by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on February 25, 1947, on the Recommendations of the Drafting Commission (Washington, DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1947), by Soviet Union (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Joiners: A Sociological Description of Voluntary Association Membership in the United States (New York: Bedminster Press, 1962), by Murray Hausknecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. Citizens in World Affairs: A Directory of Non-Governmental Organizations, Who They Are, What They Do (New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1953), ed. by Katharine C. Garrigue (page images at HathiTrust)

• Who Cares? How State Funding and Political Activism Change Charity (c2007), by Nick Seddon (PDF at Civitas)
• House of Hospitality (1939), by Dorothy Day (HTML at Catholic Worker)
• Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical (3 volumes from various editions printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798-1802), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Literature of Philanthropy (New York: Harper and Bros., 1893), ed. by Frances A. Goodale (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Social Diagnosis (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1917), by Mary Ellen Richmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Complete Works of Count Rumford, Published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (4 volumes; Boston: Estes and Lauriat, ca. 1870-1875), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Psychology of the Club: A Study in Social Psychology (dissertation reprinted from The Pedagogical Seminary, Sept. 1911), by Louis D. Hartson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Little Democracy: A Text-Book on Community Organization (New York: D. Appleton, 1918), by Ida Clyde Clarke, contrib. by P. P. Claxton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Verfassungsänderung und Verfassungswandlung: Eine Staatsrechtlich-politische Abhandlung (in German; Berlin: O. Haring, 1906), by Georg Jellinek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions (Boston: Little and Brown, 1847), by Joseph Marie Maistre (page images at HathiTrust)

• When Things Don't Fall Apart: Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence, by Ilene Grabel, contrib. by Dani Rodrik (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations (Washington: Essential Information, 2013), by Gary Ruskin (PDF at corporatepolicy.org)
• Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources: An Ithaka Report (2008), by Kevin M. Guthrie, Rebecca J. Griffiths, and Nancy Maron (PDF with commentary at ithaka.org)

• Fairness, Globalization, and Public Institutions: East Asia and Beyond (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2006), ed. by James A. Dator, Richard Pratt, and Yong-sŏk Sŏ (PDF with commentary at Hawaii)

• Practicing the Ways of Democracy Through the Girls' League (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1943), by Sarah Martha Sturtevant and Ethel Rosenberry (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.