The Online Books Page

Democracy -- European Union countries

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Democracy
• European Union countries

• Democratic Experiments: Problematizing Nanotechnology and Democracy in Europe and the United States (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Brice Laurent (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

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

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.