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Civil Democracy Protection: Success Conditions of Non-Governmental Organisations in Comparison (London and New York: Routledge, c2024), ed. by Uwe Backes and Thomas Lindenberger
- PDF and Epub with commentary at Taylor and Francis
- PDF with commentary at OAPEN
The Future of Self-Governing, Thriving Democracies: Democratic Innovations By, With and For the People (London and New York: Routledge, 2023), by Brigitte Geissel (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
Democracy (originally published 1971; this edition Ann Arbor: MPublishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013), by Carl Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
The Multidimensional Crisis and Inclusive Democracy (c2009), by Takēs Phōtopoulos (PDF and HTML with commentary at inclusivedemocracy.org)
Democracy in Brief (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2007), by Howard Cincotta (PDF files at america.gov)
The Backlash Against Democracy Assistance: A Report (2006), by National Endowment for Democracy (U.S.) (PDF at ned.org)
Is Democracy Possible? The Alternative to Electoral Politics (electronic edition, 2006), by John Burnheim (HTML and Epub with commentary at Sydney University Press)
Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance (2003), by Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)
Communication and Democracy: Coincident Revolutions and the Emergent Dictator's Dilemma (1997), by Christopher R. Kedzie (HTML at rand.org)
Towards an Inclusive Democracy: The Crisis of the Growth Economy and the Need for a New Liberatory Project (London and New York: Cassell, c1997), by Takēs Phōtopoulos (PDF with commentary at inclusivedemocracy.org)
Tocqueville and Democracy in the Internet Age (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2014), by Christopher Jon Delogu (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation (fourth US edition; 2010), by Gene Sharp (PDF via aeinstein.org)
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (SD Papers, #1: New York: Social Democrats, USA, c1978), by Sidney Hook, Bayard Rustin, Carl Gershman, and Penn Kemble (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission (New York: New York University Press, c1975), by Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, and Joji Watanuki (PDF at Wayback Machine)
Lincoln on Democracy (revised edition; New York: Fordham University Press, 2004), by Abraham Lincoln, ed. by Mario Matthew Cuomo and Harold Holzer (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
The Culture of Citizenship: Inventing Postmodern Civic Culture (second edition, 2001), by Thomas Bridges (PDF at crvp.org)
Random Selection in Politics (c1999), by Lyn Carson and Brian Martin (PDF in Australia)
Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life (Oakland: University of California Press, c2024), by Nathan Schneider, illust. by Darija Medić (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org)
The Authoritarian Playbook: How Reporters Can Contextualize and Cover Authoritarian Threats As Distinct From Politics-As-Usual (Washington: Protect Democracy, 2022), by Jennifer Dresden, Aaron Baird, and Ben Raderstorf (PDF with commentary at protectdemocracy.org)
Property and Contract in Economics: The Case for Economic Democracy (c1992), by David P. Ellerman (PDF files with commentary at ellerman.org)
Why Democracies Fail: A Critical Evaluation of the Causes for Modern Dictatorship (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1957), by Norman LeVaun Stamps (page images at HathiTrust)
Promoting Democracy: The National Endowment for Democracy's Management of Grants Overseas (1986), by United States General Accounting Office (PDF at gao.gov)
Democracy and Power: The Delhi Lectures (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2014), by Noam Chomsky, contrib. by Jean Drèze (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
A Democratic Manifesto: The Impact of Dynamic Christianity Upon Public Life and Government (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1954), by Samuel Enoch Stumpf (page images at HathiTrust)
Events Leading to the Establishment of the National Endowment for Democracy: Report to Senator Malcolm Wallop (1984), by United States General Accounting Office (PDF at gao.gov)
Democratizing Innovation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2005), by Eric von Hippel (PDF files at MIT)
Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field, Prospects for Reform (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2020), ed. by Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker (PDF and HTML at Cambridge Core)
Promissory Notes: On the Literary Conditions of Debt (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, 2018), by Robin Truth Goodman (Javascript-dependent HTML with commentary at Lever Press)
Democracy Versus Dictatorship (New York: League for Industrial Democracy, 1937), by Norman Thomas (multiple formats at archive.org)
Defending Civil Society: Report (second edition; 2012), by World Movement for Democracy, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, and National Endowment for Democracy (U.S.) (PDF at movedemocracy.org)
A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Donald L. Horowitz (HTML at UC Press)
Controlling Bureaucracies: Dilemmas in Democratic Governance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by Judith E. Gruber (frame-dependent HTML at UC Press)
The Public and its Problems (Denver: A. Swallow, c1927), by John Dewey (Gutenberg text)
The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy, by James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)
A Citizen Legislature (1985), by Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips (HTML at well.com)
Democracy, by James Russell Lowell (HTML at Bartleby)
Democracy and Idealism (1917), by John Erskine (page images here at Penn)
Democracy Vindicated: A Lecture Delivered to the Edinburgh Working Men's Institute (1867), by Ernest Charles Jones (HTML in the UK)
Discourses in America (London: Macmillan, 1885), by Matthew Arnold (Gutenberg text)
Fears for Democracy Regarded from the American Point of View, by Charles Ingersoll (page images at MOA)
On Democracy: A Lecture Delivered to the Working Men's Institute, Edinburgh (1867), by John Stuart Blackie (HTML with commentary in the UK)
The Soul of Democracy: The Philosophy of the World War in Relation to Human Liberty (1918), by Edward Howard Griggs (Gutenberg text)
Open Source Democracy: How Online Communication is Changing Offline Politics (London: Demos, 2003), by Douglas Rushkoff
- PDF at Demos
- without foreword; Gutenberg text
The Scar of Revolution: Custine, Tocqueville, and the Romantic Imagination (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Irena Grudzinska-Gross (HTML at UC Press)
The Campus: A Fortress of Democracy (New York: American Student Union, ca. 1937), by Joseph P. Lash
- PDF at flvc.org
- multiple formats at archive.org
Pragmatism and the Crisis of Democracy (Public policy pamphlet #12; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934), by Charles W. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
The Struggle for Democracy in Latin America (New York: Macmillan, 1961), by Charles O. Porter and Robert J. Alexander (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
American Institutions and Their Influence (1851 edition, 528 pages), by Alexis de Tocqueville, contrib. by John C. Spencer (page images at MOA)
American Institutions and Their Influence (1851 edition, 474 pages), by Alexis de Tocqueville, contrib. by John C. Spencer (page images at MOA)
American Institutions and Their Influence (1851 edition), by Alexis de Tocqueville, contrib. by John C. Spencer (Gutenberg text)
Creeping Socialism?, by Union for Democratic Socialism (multiple formats at archive.org)
The False Assumptions of "Democracy" (London: Heath, Cranton, 1921), by Anthony M. Ludovici (HTML at anthonymludovici.com)
The Future of Democracy (London: G. Allen and Unwin, c1915), by H. M. Hyndman (multiple formats at archive.org)
Never Again: Ending War, Democide, and Famine Through Democratic Freedom, by R. J. Rummel (PDF at Hawaii)
The New State, by Mary Parker Follett (HTML at utk.edu)
Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy, by Robert Michels, trans. by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul (PDF at McMaster)
Theocracy or Democracy? (New York: New York Labor News Co., 1944), by Arnold Petersen (page images at HathiTrust)
The Wave of the Past (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941), by R. H. Markham (page images at HathiTrust)
The Impasse of Democracy: A Study of the Modern Government in Action (New York: Harrison-Hilton Books, c1939), by Ernest S. Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)
Which Way America? Communism, Fascism, Democracy (New York: Macmillan, 1939), by Lyman Bryson (page images at HathiTrust)
Democratic Despotism (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1936), by Raoul E. Desvernine (page images at HathiTrust)
American Institutions and Their Preservation (New York, c1927), by William W. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville (HTML with commentary at Virginia)
Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. by Henry Reeve
- volume 1: Gutenberg text
- volume 2: Gutenberg text
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat (Manchester et al.: National Labour Press, ca. 1919), by Karl Kautsky, trans. by H. J. Stenning
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat (second edition; Manchester et al.: National Labour Press, ca. 1924), by Karl Kautsky, trans. by H. J. Stenning (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
England For All (London: Gilbert and Rivington, 1881), by H. M. Hyndman (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Gospel of Wealth, and Other Timely Essays (New York: Century Co., 1901), by Andrew Carnegie (multiple formats at archive.org)
Imperial Democracy: A Study of the Relation of Government by the People, Equality Before the Law, and Other Tenets of Democracy to the Demands of a Vigorous Foreign Policy and Other Demands of Imperial Dominion (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1899), by David Starr Jordan (multiple formats at archive.org)
In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace (1918), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
A Traveller in War-Time, With an Essay on the American Contribution and the Democratic Idea, by Winston Churchill
- part 1: Gutenberg text
- part 2: Gutenberg text
Wahlrecht und Demokratie in Deutschland (in German; Berlin: Schönberg, 1918), by Max Weber
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
Causes and Consequences (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898), by John Jay Chapman (multiple formats at archive.org)
Causes and Consequences (revised edition; New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1909), by John Jay Chapman (multiple formats at archive.org)
Critical Miscellanies (4 volumes, published by Macmillan 1904-1909), by John Morley
- Volume I (Robespierre; Carlyle; Byron; Macaulay; Emerson): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (Vauvenargugs; Turgot; Condorcet; Joseph de Maistre): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III (On Popular Culture; The Death of Mr. Mill; Mr. Mill's Autobiography; The Life of George Eliot; On Pattison's Memoirs; Harriet Martineau; W. R. Greg: A Sketch; France in the Eighteenth Century; The Expansion of England; Auguste Comte): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (Machiavelli; Guicciardini; A New Calendar of Great Men; John Stuart Mill: An Annversary; Lecky on Democracy; A Historical Romance; Democracy and Reaction; Appendix): multiple formats at archive.org
Democracy Assistance: U.S. Agencies Take Steps to Coordinate International Programs but Lack Information on Some U.S.-Funded Activities, by United States Government Accountability Office (PDF at fdlp.gov)
Public Finance in Democratic Process: Fiscal Institutions and Individual Choice, by James M. Buchanan (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)
Secrets, Lies and Democracy, by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian (HTML at zcomm.org)

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