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• Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), ed. by Kenneth Huntress Baldwin and David Kirby, contrib. by Edgar A. Dryden, J. V. Ridgely, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis D. Rubin, Carlos Baker, Philip Momberger, James E. Miller, James Baird, and Edward Mendelson (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• 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

• The Negro Leadership Class (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1963), by Daniel C. Thompson, contrib. by Martin Luther King (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reed Town, Japan: A Study in Community Power Structure and Political Change (originally published 1974; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019), by Yasumasa Kuroda (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• Sally, Mrs. Tubbs (Boston: Lothrop Pub. Co., 1903), by Margaret Sidney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cannery Row (c1945), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Janey (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1911), by Inez Haynes Gillmore, illust. by Ada Clendenin Williamson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Silas Bradford's Boy (c1928), by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

• Skipping Village: A Town of Not So Very Long Ago (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1927), by Lois Lenski
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Awakening Community (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Mary Mims and Georgia Williams Moritz, contrib. by Charles W. Pipkin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2009), ed. by Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez (HTML at Michigan)

• The Poetics of Cities: Designing Neighborhoods That Work (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Mike Greenberg (PDF at Ohio State)

• 40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Street-Legal Tactics for Community Activists (revised edition, 2020), by Spencer Sunshine (PDF files with commentary at spencersunshine.com)
• Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide (fifth edition; Montgomery, AL: Southern Poverty Law Center, c2017), by Jim Carrier, ed. by Richard Cohen, contrib. by Brian Willoughby, Carrie Kilman, Booth Gunter, Wendy Via, and Lecia Brooks (HTML and PDF with commentary at splcenter.org)
• Don't Mourn, Organize! SDS Guide to Community Organizing, by Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) (PDF page images at MSU)

• Fighting Police Abuse: A Community Action Manual (1997), by American Civil Liberties Union (HTML with commentary at aclu.org)

• Rising Above Gangs and Drugs: How to Start a Community Reclamation Project (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1995), by Billie Sargent Hatchell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public (originally published 2002; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• By Invitation Only: The Rise of Exclusive Politics in the United States (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000), by Steven E. Schier (page images at Pitt)
• By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative Elections (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by John Gastil (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Reinventing Citizenship: The Practice of Public Work (1995), by Center for Democracy and Citizenship (HTML at umn.edu)
• Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century (2020), by American Academy of Arts and Sciences (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at amacad.org)
• The Roots of Latino Urban Agency (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, c2013), ed. by Sharon Ann Navarro and Rodolfo Rosales (PDF at oapen.org)
• Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, c2010), ed. by Daniel Lathrop and Laurel Ruma (multiple formats at github.com)
• A Citizen Legislature (1985), by Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips (HTML at well.com)
• Newer Ideals of Peace, by Jane Addams (HTML at Brock)
• 25 Years of a Great Idea: A History of the National League of Women Voters, a Non-Partisan Organization Established in 1920 to Encourage Citizen Participation in Government (Washington: National League of Women Voters, 1946), by Kathryn H. Stone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age (c2008), ed. by Allison H. Fine, Micah L. Sifry, Andrew Rasiej, and Joshua Levy, contrib. by Esther Dyson (HTML and PDF with commentary at personaldemocracy.com)

• Teaching What You're Not: Identity Politics in Higher Education (New York and London: New York University Press, 1996), ed. by Katherine J. Mayberry, contrib. by Nancy J. Peterson, Barbara Scott Winkler, Janet M. Powers, J. Scott Johnson, Jennifer Kellen, Greg Seibert, Celia Shaughnessy, Christie Farnham, Barbara DiBernard, Celeste Michelle Condit, Jacqueline Jones, Lavina Dhingra, Indira Karamcheti, Craig Heller, Robert S. Levine, Gary L. Lemons, Gerard Aching, Donna J. Watson, Mary Elizabeth Lanser, and Renée R. Curry (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Speaking Freely: Former Members of Congress Talk About Money in Politics, by Martin Schram (HTML at opensecrets.org)

• Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2009), ed. by Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez (HTML at Michigan)

• We Are Wisconsin: The Wisconsin Uprising in the Words of the Activists, Writers, and Everyday Wisconsinites Who Made It Happen (Minneapolis: Tasora Books, c2011), ed. by Erica Sagrans (PDF with commentary at wearewisconsinbook.com)

• Participatory Politics: Next-Generation Tactics to Remake Public Spheres (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by Elisabeth Soep (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Public Leadership: Perspectives and Practices (2008), ed. by Paul 't Hart and John Uhr (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• African Youth on the Information Highway: Participation and Leadership in Community Development, ed. by Osita Ogbu and Paschal Mihyo (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• No Straight Lines: Local Leadership and the Path from Government to Governance in Small Cities (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2018), ed. by Terry Kading (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• The Workshop for Morality: The Islamic Creativity of Pesantren Daarut Tauhid in Bandung, Java (2008), by Dindin Solahudin (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Ten Ways to Fight Hate on Campus: A Response Guide for College Activists (Montgomery, AL: Teaching Tolerance, c2004), by Brian Willoughby, illust. by Ulla Puggaard (PDF with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Patricians and Popolani: The Social Foundations of the Venetian Renaissance State (originally published 1987; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Dennis Romano (HTML and Epub with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Kiwanis Magazine (partial serial archives)

• From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World (2008), by Duncan Green (PDF with commentary at oxfam.org)
• Random Selection in Politics (c1999), by Lyn Carson and Brian Martin (PDF in Australia)
• Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by W. Lance Bennett (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Backfire Manual: Tactics Against Injustice (Sparsnäs, Sweden: Irene Publishing, 2012), by Brian Martin (PDF with commentary in Australia)
• Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance (2003), by Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)
• Swarmwise: The Tactical Manual to Changing the World (version 1.1, 2013), by Rick Falkvinge (HTML and PDF at falkvinge.net)
• Who Cares? How State Funding and Political Activism Change Charity (c2007), by Nick Seddon (PDF at Civitas)
• Is Democracy Possible? The Alternative to Electoral Politics (electronic edition, 2006), by John Burnheim (HTML and Epub with commentary at Sydney University Press)
• Open Source Democracy: How Online Communication is Changing Offline Politics (London: Demos, 2003), by Douglas Rushkoff
  • PDF at Demos
  • without foreword; Gutenberg text
• The New State, by Mary Parker Follett (HTML at utk.edu)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.