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• Kazahkstan: Freedom of the Media and Political Freedoms in the Prelude to the 1999 Elections (1999), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML with commentary at hrw.org)

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• The Globalization of Human Rights (Tokyo and New York: United Nations University Press, c2003), ed. by Jean-Marc Coicaud, Michael Doyle, and Anne-Marie Gardner (page images at Google)
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, November 21, 1991 (Washington: GPO, 1992), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Worst of the Worst, by Freedom House (U.S.) (partial serial archives)

• Trial and Error: The American Civil Liberties Union and Its Impact on Your Family (1989), by George Grant (HTML with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Civil and Political Rights in the United States: Initial Report of the United States of America to the U.N. Human Rights Committee Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (includes a copy of the Covenant and an optional protocol; Washington: GPO, 1994), by United States Department of State (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 (multiple formats 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)

• Purged! How a Patchwork of Flawed and Inconsistent Voting Systems Could Deprive Millions of Americans of the Right to Vote (New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 2004), by Laleh Ispahani, contrib. by Nick Williams (PDF with commentary at aclu.org)

• America's Disenfranchised: Why Restoring Their Vote Can Save the Soul of Our Democracy (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Desmond Meade
  • HTML at Project MUSE
  • HTML at openresearchlibrary.org

• From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World (second edition; c2012), 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)
• Players and Arenas: The Interactive Dynamics of Protest (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2015), ed. by James M. Jasper and Jan Willem Duyvendak (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• 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)
• Breaking Down the State: Protestors Engaged (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2015), ed. by Jan Willem Duyvendak and James M. Jasper (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• 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)

• The Brazilian Voter: Mass Politics in Democratic Transition, 1974-1986 (Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1995), ed. by Kurt von Mettenheim (page images at Pitt)

• Deliberation, Representation, Equity: Research Approaches, Tools and Algorithms for Participatory Processes (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2017), by Love Ekenberg, Karin Hansson, Mats Danielson, and Göran Cars (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Report of the International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development: Poverty, Conflict, and Hope, A Turning Point in Central America (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), by International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development (page images at HathiTrust)

• Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1987), ed. by Victor C. Falkenheim (HTML at Project MUSE)

• Politicizing Digital Space: Theory, the Internet, and Renewing Democracy (London: University of Westminster Press, c2017), by Trevor Garrison Smith (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)

• Deliberation, Representation, Equity: Research Approaches, Tools and Algorithms for Participatory Processes (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2017), by Love Ekenberg, Karin Hansson, Mats Danielson, and Göran Cars (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Reimagining Democracy: Lessons in Deliberative Democracy from the Irish Front Line (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by David M. Farrell and Jane Suiter (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Shutting Out the Critics: Restrictive Laws Used to Repress Civil Society in Jordan (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2007), by Christoph Wicke (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Protesting America: Democracy and the U.S.-Korea Alliance (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Katharine H. S. Moon (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)

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

• Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf, by F. Gregory Gause (HTML at Mcgill)

• Deliberation, Representation, Equity: Research Approaches, Tools and Algorithms for Participatory Processes (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2017), by Love Ekenberg, Karin Hansson, Mats Danielson, and Göran Cars (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement in Civic Tech: Meeting People Where They Are (Chicago: Smart Chicago Collaborative, 2015), by Laurenellen McCann, ed. by Daniel X. O'Neil (PDF with commentary at smartchicagocollaborative.org)
• Deliberation, Representation, Equity: Research Approaches, Tools and Algorithms for Participatory Processes (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2017), by Love Ekenberg, Karin Hansson, Mats Danielson, and Göran Cars (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The CUTGroup: Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech (Chicago: Smart Chicago Collaborative, 2014), by Daniel X. O'Neil (HTML with commentary at cutgroupbook.org)
• 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)
• Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data (London: University of Westminster Press, c2019), ed. by David Chandler and Christian Fuchs (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)
• 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)

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