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• Undermining Democracy: 21st Century Authoritarians (2009), by Freedom House (U.S.), RFE/RL, and Radio Free Asia (PDF at freedomhouse.org)
• Communication and Democracy: Coincident Revolutions and the Emergent Dictator's Dilemma (1997), by Christopher R. Kedzie (HTML at rand.org)
• Authoritarianism and leadership; a study of the follower's orientation to authority. (Printed by Stephenson-Brothers, 1950), by Fillmore Hargrave Sanford and Pa.) Institute for Research in Human Relations (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• "At hand" what is "At hand?" : the universal righteous government of "the Kingdom of God" upon earth is "at hand" : as is made abundantly manifest in several extremely important and suggestive letters to the Queen and the Prince of Wales, as well as to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Duke of Argyll ([s.n.], 1894), by Henry Wentworth Monk (page images at HathiTrust)

• Democratization versus liberalization in the Arab world : dilemmas and challenges for U.S. foreign policy (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2005), by Daniel Brumberg and Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bureaucratic Authoritarianism: Argentina, 1966-1973, in Comparative Perspective (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Guillermo A. O'Donnell (HTML at UC Press)

• The status of democracy in South America : hearing and markup before the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, on House Concurrent Resolution 192 ... Chile, September 11 and 19, 1985. (U.S. G.P.O., 1985), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Underground Movement, by Allen Kim Lang, illust. by Robert Engle (Gutenberg ebook)
• I, the Unspeakable, by Walter J. Sheldon, illust. by Louis Marchetti (Gutenberg ebook)
• Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (in German), by Robert Musil (Gutenberg ebook)

• Authoritarianism and the return of democracy in Latin America : hearing before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, June 5, 26 and July 31, 1984. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authoritarianism and the return of democracy in Latin America : hearing before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, June 5, 26 and July 31, 1984. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Literatura e Autoritarismo (in English, German, Portuguese and Spanish; 2003-) (partial serial archives)
• دولت‌پژوهی (in Persian; 2015-) (partial serial archives)

• Russia's New Authoritarianism: Putin and the Politics of Order (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2020), by David G. Lewis (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• The war in Chechnya and Russian civil society : June 17, 2004, briefing of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. (Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe :, 2006), by United States Congress Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Rise of Trump: America's Authoritarian Spring (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2016), by Matthew C. MacWilliams (HTML and PDF with commentary at Amherst)

• Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021), by Jini Kim Watson (PDF files at JSTOR)

• The Wave of the Past (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941), by R. H. Markham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Democratic Despotism (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1936), by Raoul E. Desvernine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louis XIV and Absolutism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), ed. by Ragnhild Marie Hatton (PDF at Ohio State)
• On Tyranny: An Interpretation of Xenophon's Hiero (Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, c1948), by Leo Strauss, contrib. by Alvin Saunders Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The age of the despots. (P. Smith, 1967), by John Addington Symonds (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Despotism, a pictorial history of tyranny. (Philosophical Library, 1963), by Dagobert D. Runes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les chaines de l'esclavage : ouvrage destiné à développer les noirs attentats des princes contre les peuples, les ressorts secrets, les ruses, les menées, les artifices, les coups d'état qu'ils emploient pour détruire la liberté, et les scènes sanglantes qui accompagnent le despotisme (Adolphe Havard, 1833), by Jean Paul Marat and Jean-Alexandre Havard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin of tyranny (The University press, 1922), by P. N. Ure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Tyrannis in ihren beiden Perioden bei den alten Griechen : dargestellt nach Ursachen, Verlauf und Wirkungen (Gumprecht, 1859), by Hermann Gottlob Plass (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of auricular confession and indulgences in the Latin church. (Lea Brothers, 1896), by Henry Charles Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• A defence of liberty against tyrants; a translation of the Vindiciae contra tyrannos (G. Bell, 1924), by Hubert Languet, Philippe de Mornay, and Harold J. Laski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fůrst und volk (Gedruckt bei F. J. Bek, 1821), by Ignaz Paul Vitalis Troxler, George Buchanan, and John Milton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coluccio Salutati's traktat "Vom tyrannen". (W. Rothschild, 1913), by Coluccio Salutati and Alfred von Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The new democracy and the new despotism (McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1939), by Charles Edward Merriam (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spirit of despotism. (W. Hone, 1821), by Vicesimus Knox and William Hone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur l'origine du despotisme oriental. Ouvrage posthume de Mr. B.I.D.P.E.C. ... ([Geneva], 1761), by Nicolas Antoine Boulanger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur le despotisme. (Londres, 1776), by Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti Mirabeau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adresse des ouvriers républicains a Juarez (Publié par des ouvriers français, 1867), by Félix Pyat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte Europas im Zeitalter des Absolutismus und der Vollendung des modernen Staatensystems (1660-1789) (F.A. Perthes, 1923), by Kurt Kaser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das bild des tyrannen bei Platon : ein beitrag zur geschichte der griechischen staatsethik (W. Kohlhammer, 1927), by Gerhard Heintzeler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Criminalogía de los gobiernos españoles : estudio político-social (Ramón Pujol, 1906), by J. Just Lloret (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The spirit of despotism : dedicated to Lord Castlereagh (W. Hone, 1821), by Vicesimus Knox, George Cruikshank, and William Hone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die Nothwendigkeit durchgreifender Reformen bei der gegenwärtigen Lage Deutschlands : mit einleitenden Bemerkungen über die von Herrn von Strombeck vor kurzem abgehandelte Frage--Was ist Rechtens, wenn die oberste Staatsgewalt dem Staatszwecke entgegenhandelt? (F. Vieweg, 1831), by Karl Heinrich Jürgens (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the abuse of unrestrained power; an historical essay. (Dilly, 1778), by William Johnston Temple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contrat social des republiques et essai sur les abus religieux, politiques, civils, etc. parmi toutes les nations et principalement en France. (Desenne, an VIII, 1800), by P. J. B. Nougaret (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les chaines de l'esclavage : ouvrage destiné ̀développer les noirs attentats des princes contre les peuples: les ressorts secrets, les ruses, les ménées, les artifices, les coups d'état qu'ils employent pour détruire la liberté, et les scènes sanglantes qui accompagnent le depotisme (De l'imprimerie de Marat ..., 1792), by Jean Paul Marat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Despotisme des ministres de France : ou exposition des principes & moyens employés par l'aristocratie, pour mettre la France dans les fers. Tome premier [-troisieme]. (Chez Godefroy, Libraire ..., 1789), by Billaud-Varenne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spirit of despotism ... (re-printed by Wilson & Blackwell, 1802), by Vicesimus Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rudolph Zacharias Becker's Leiden und Freuden in siebzehnmonatlicher französischer Gefangenschaft (Becker, 1814), by Rudolph Zacharias Becker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die Geschichte des Despotismus in Deutschland (Verlag des Waisenhauses, 1780), by Friedrich Christoph Jonathan Fischer and Germany) Waisenhaus (Halle an der Saale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oeuvres choisies de Mirabeau. Essai sur le despotisme.--Considérations sur l'ordre de Cincinnatus.--De la liberté de la presse.--Réglemens observés pour les votes en Angleterre. (Brissot-Thivars, 1821), by Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti Mirabeau and Society of the Cincinnati (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defensa de los pueblos contra la tiranía de los reyes (Lanuza, Mendía y C., 1827), by Girolamo Spanzotti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free thoughts on despotic and free governments, as connected with the happiness of the governor and the governed. (Printed for Charles Dilly, 1781), by Joseph Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rozmowa albo dyjalog około egzekucjej polskiej korony ; i, Quincunx : w wyborze z ryciną (E. Wende, 1921), by Stanisław Okszyc Orzechowski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• İstibdat (Matbaa-yı İctihad, 1908), by Vittorio Alfieri (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De l'esprit de conquête et de l'usurpation : dans leurs rapports avec la civilisation européenne (Le Normand, 1814), by Benjamin Constant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die gegenwärtigen Theorieen über den Begriff der gesetzgebenden Gewalt und den umfang des königlichen Verordnungsrechts nach preussischem Staatsrecht (Mohr, 1901), by Gerhard Anschütz and K. Asakawa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Grundrisse und Bausteine zur Staats- und zur Geschichtslehre : zusammengetragen zu den Ehren Gustav Schmollers und zum Gedaechtnis des 24. Juni 1908 seines siebenzigsten Geburtstages (G. Bondi, 1908), by Kurt Breysig, Gustav Roethe, Friedrich Andreae, Berthold Vallentin, Fritz Wolters, and Gustav von Schmoller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Killing no murder : briefly discoursed in three questions ([s.n.], 1689), by Edward Sexby, William Allen, and Silius Titus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religion eines Fürsten (Bey G.C. Hilschern, 1730), by William Nicholls, Valentin Ernst Löscher, and Carl Gottfried Engelschall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antimariana, ov, Refvtation des propositions de Mariana (P. Mettayer, 1610), by Michel Roussel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur le despotisme. Histoire secréte de la cour de Berlin. (Lecointe et Pougin, 1835), by Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti Mirabeau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della tirannide; libri due. (R. Crespi, 1848), by Vittorio Alfieri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adolphe. Anecdote trouvée dans les papiers d'un inconnu (Charpentier, 1839), by Benjamin Constant and Gustave Planche (page images at HathiTrust)
• Choix principaux de traités de démocratie extraits de divers écrits de philosophie, ancienne et nouvelle. (Rouanet, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della tirannide. (P. Agnelli, 1812), by Vittorio Alfieri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oeuvres. (Amsterdam, 1794), by Nicolas Antoine Boulanger, Peter Annet, and Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Despotizm : ego print︠s︡ipy, primi︠e︡nenīe ikh i borʹba za despotizm (Tip. M.M. Stasi︠u︡levicha, 1911), by P. V. Zasodimskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Adolphe. (Charpentier, 1839), by Benjamin Constant and Gustave i Planche (page images at HathiTrust)
• Romvlvs and Tarqvin. (Printed by I.H. for John Benson, 1637), by Virgilio Malvezzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Killing no murder: briefly discoursed in three questions. ([London?], 1689), by Edward Sexby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vindiciæ contra tyrannos, sive, De principis in populum : populique in principem, legitima potestate (Sumpt. Hæred. Lazari Zetzneri, 1622), by Hubert Languet, Philippe de Mornay, and Johann Baptist Fickler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minuta de acusación al ministerio Vicuña-Godoy : presentada por la Cámara de Diputados ante el Senado en sesión de 5 de agosto de 1892. (Impr. Nacional, 1892), by Chile. Congreso Nacional. Senado and Chile. Congreso Nacional. Cámara de Diputados (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diktatur des Prolétariats oder Demokratie? (M. Rascher, 1919), by Charles Naine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Erroneous philosophies that always have led humanity into chaos. ([s.n.], 1948), by Otto Philip Cherdron (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De la puissance legitime du prince sur le peuple, et du peuple sur le prince : traité tres-utile & digne de lecture en ce temps (Éditions d'Histoire Sociale, 1977), by Hubert Languet, Philippe de Mornay, and François Estienne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vindiciae contra tyrannos (Impensis Lazari Zetzneri bibliop. Arg., 1608), by Hubert Languet, Johann Baptist Fickler, and Philippe de Mornay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defensa de los pueblos, contra la tirania de los reyes (Impr. de Juan Oliveres, 1836), by Geronimo Spanzotti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Svobodnoe znanīe (Izd. T-va M.O. Volʹf, 1900), by E. V. Tarle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nujūm al-zuhr fī rusūm aʻyān Miṣr. (Maṭbaʻat Jarīdat Miṣr, 1905), by Karīm Khalīl Thābit, ʻAbd al-Masīḥ Anṭākī, and ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Kawākibī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recht und gewalt (Vereinigung wissenschaftlicher verleger [etc.], 1921), by Erich Brodmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Karl Marx über den Ursprung der vorherrschaft Russlands in Europa : kritische Untersuchungen ([publisher not identified], 1909), by D. B. Ri︠a︡zanov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Revolution; why, how, when? (Committee for Constitutional Govt., 1943), by Robert Hunter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De tyrannicidic apud scriptores decimi sexti seculi. [Thesis.] (L. Hachette, 1888), by Aristide Douarche (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Origin of Tyranny, by P. N. Ure (Gutenberg ebook)
• Adolphe : Anecdote trouvée dans les papiers d'un inconnu: Suivi de quelques réflexions sur le théâtre allemand et sur la tragédie de Wallstein, et de l'esprit de conquête et de l'usurpation (in French), by Benjamin Constant (Gutenberg ebook)
• The learned and loyal Abraham Cowley's definition of a tyrant (published by the present Lord Bishop of Rochester) in his discourse concerning the government of Oliver Cromwell. (London printed : [s.n.], 1688), by Abraham Cowley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A free discourse wherein the doctrines which make for tyranny are display'd the title of our rightful and lawful King William vindicated, and the unreasonableness and mischievous tendency of the odious distinction of a king de facto, and de jure, discover'd / by a Person of Honour. (London : Printed for John Lawrence ... and Richard Baldwin ..., 1697), by Person of honour, Daniel Defoe, and Robert Howard (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Regall tyrannie discovered: or, A discourse, shewing that all lawfull (approbational) instituted power by God amongst men, is by common agreement, and mutual consent.: Which power (in the hands of whomsoever) ought alwayes to be exercised for the good, benefit, and welfare of the trusters, and never ought other wise to be administered: ... In which is also punctually declared, the tyrannie of the kings of England, from the dayes of William the invader and robber, and tyrant, alias the Conqueror, to this present King Charles, ... Out of which is drawn a discourse, occasioned by the tyrannie and injustice inflicted by the Lords, upon that stout-faithful-lover of his country, and constant sufferer for the liberties thereof, Lieut. Col. John Lilburn, now prisoner in the Tower. In which these 4. following positions are punctually handled ... Vnto which is annexed a little touch, upon some palbable miscarriages, of some rotten members of the House of Commons: which house, is the absolute sole lawmaking, and law-binding interest of England. (London : [s.n.], Printed Anno Dom. 1647), by John Lilburne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Killing noe murder.: Briefly discoursed in three quæstions. By William Allen. ([Holland : s.n., 1657]), by Silius Titus, William Allen, and Edward Sexby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Vindiciae contra tyrannos. English (London : Printed by Matthew Simmons and Robert Ibbitson, in Smithfield, neer the Queens-head Tavern, 1648), by Hubert Languet and William Walker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The spirit of despotism. [Eight lines of quotations] ([Philadelphia] : London: printed in the year 1795. Philadelphia: re-printed by Lang and Ustick, for selves and Mathew Carey., Nov. 28, MDCCXCV. [1795]), by Vicesimus Knox (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Defensive arms vindicated; and the lawfulness of the American war made manifest. To which is added, a short receipt for a Continental disease, &c. : Dedicated to His Excellency General Washington. / By a moderate Whig. ([United States] : Printed for the author,, 1783), by Moderate Whig and George Washington (HTML at Evans TCP)

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