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New democracies

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• Democracy

• Democratization

• Countries, Newly democratic
• Democracies, New
• Democratic states, New
• Emerging democracies
• Nations, Newly democratic
• New democratic states
• Newly democratic states
• States, Newly democratic

• The Backlash Against Democracy Assistance: A Report (2006), by National Endowment for Democracy (U.S.) (PDF at ned.org)

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

• Revitalizing U.S. Democracy Promotion: A Comprehensive Plan for Reform (Washington: New America Foundation, c2009), by Michael A. Cohen and Maria Figueroa Küpçü (PDF at newamerica.net)
• Creating Democratic Societies: Values and Norms (Bulgarian Philosophical Studies, II; Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1999), ed. by Plamen Makariev, Andrew M. Blasko, and Asen Davidov (multiple formats at Google)
• Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (Creative Commons-licensed PDF, c2008), by David Bollier (PDF with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance (2003), by Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)
• The Backlash Against Democracy Assistance: A Report (2006), by National Endowment for Democracy (U.S.) (PDF at ned.org)
• Overcoming Obstacles to Peace: Local Factors in Nation-Building (c2013), by James Dobbins, Laurel Miller, Stéphanie Pézard, Christopher S. Chivvis, Julie E. Taylor, Keith Crane, Calin Trenkov-Wermuth, and Tewodaj Mengistu (multiple formats with commentary at rand.org)

• The Future of Afghanistan (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2009), ed. by J. Alexander Thier (PDF with commentary at usip.org)

• Security and Democracy in Southern Africa (2007), ed. by Gavin Cawthra, André Du Pisani, and Abillah H. Omari (PDF and HTML at idrc.ca)

• The Friendly Liquidation of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2000), by Donna Lee Van Cott (searchable page images at Pitt)

• Creating Democratic Societies: Values and Norms (Bulgarian Philosophical Studies, II; Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1999), ed. by Plamen Makariev, Andrew M. Blasko, and Asen Davidov (multiple formats at Google)

• After the War: Nation-Building from FDR to George W. Bush (2008), by James Dobbins, Michele A. Poole, Austin G. Long, and Benjamin Runkle (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• The Friendly Liquidation of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2000), by Donna Lee Van Cott (searchable page images at Pitt)

• Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1997), by Philip J. Williams and Knut Walter (searchable page images at Pitt)

• 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)

• The Quiet Revolution: Decentralization and the Rise of Political Participation in Latin American Cities (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2003), by Tim Campbell (searchable page images at Pitt)

• Reflections on the First Multi-Party Parliament, 1995-2000, by Pius Msekwa (PDF in Tanzania)

• 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 (multiple formats 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 at University of Sydney)
• 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 in many languages, 2010), by Gene Sharp (PDF files at aeintstein.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)
• Property and Contract in Economics: The Case for Economic Democracy (c1992), by David P. Ellerman (PDF files with commentary at ellerman.org)
• 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)
• A Citizen Legislature (1985), by Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips (HTML at well.com)
• Open Source Democracy: How Online Communication is Changing Offline Politics (London: Demos, 2003), by Douglas Rushkoff
  • PDF at Demos
  • without foreword; Gutenberg text
• The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy, by James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)
• 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)
• Fears for Democracy Regarded from the American Point of View, by Charles Ingersoll (page images at MOA)
• Liberty and Democracy, ed. by Tibor R. Machan (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)
• 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)
• 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 False Assumptions of "Democracy" (London: Heath, Cranton, 1921), by Anthony M. Ludovici (HTML at anthonymludovici.com)
• 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 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)
• 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)
• 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
• 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
• 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.