Democracy

And science. Export from Europe. Indigenous outside Europe? (Yes: see Muhlberg.) In tribal and especially in nomadic cultures (like the proto-Indo-Europeans)? And non-European philosophies. Pluralism, secularism, liberty. Representative and direct. And telecommunications. Democratic deliberation as a mechanism for collective cognition.

Philip Age, "Supporting the Intellectual Life of a Democratic Society," Ethics and Information Technology, 3:4 (2001): 289--298 [draft]
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, "The Citizens of Porto Alegre", Boston Review March-April 2006
Robert A. Dahl, A Preface to Economic Democracy
Michael X. Delli Carpini, Fay Lomax Cook and Lawrence R. Jacobs, "Public Deliberation, Discursive Participation, and Citizen Engagement: A Review of the Empirical Literature", Annual Review of Political Science 7 (2004): 315--344
John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems [Mini-review]
Jonathan Israel, A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy [blurb]
Jack Knight and James Johnson, "Inquiry into Democracy: What Might a Pragmatist Make of Rational Choice Theories?", American Journal of Political Science 43 (1999): 566--589 [JSTOR]
Charles Lindblom
- The Intelligence of Democracy
- The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What to Make of It
Steve Muhlberg, The World History of Democracy and Democracy in Ancient India
Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies
Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought
Amartya Sen, "Democracy and Its Global Roots" [link]
Joseph Stiglitz
- Democratic Development as the Fruits of Labor
- On Liberty, the Right to Know, and Public Discourse: The Role of Transparency in Public Life
Charles Tilly Democracy [Mini-review]

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Daniele Archibugi, The Global Commonwealth of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy [Blurb, ch. 1]
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Militants and Citizens: The Politics of Participation in Porto Alegre [blurb]
Nancy Bermeo, Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy [Argues that "democratic collapses are caused less by changes in popular preferences than by the actions of political elites who polarize themselves and mistake the actions of a few for the preferences of the many." Introduction.]
William T. Bernhard and David Leblang, Democratic Processes and Financial Markets: Pricing Politics [Blurb]
James Bohman
- Public Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity, and Democracy [Blurb]
- Democracy across Borders: From Demos to Demoi [Blurb]
Xavier de Souza Briggs, Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe [blurb]
Robert Alan Dahl
- How Democratic Is the American Constitution?
- Polyarchy
- On Democracy
Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg, Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public
Barbara Cruikshank, The Will to Empower: Democratic Citizens and Other Subjects ["Considers the question of how liberal democracies produce citizens who are capable of governing themselves, rethinking the relationship between welfare and citizenship, democracy and despotism, and subjectivity and subjection."]
Patrick Deneen, Democratic Faith [Blurb, intro]
Eley, Forging Democracy
David M. Estlund, Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework [blurb, ch. 1]
Yi Feng, Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence [Blurb]
Archon Fung
- "Associations and Democracy: Between Theories, Hopes, and Realities", Annual Review of Sociology 29 (2003): 515--539
- Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy [Blurb, ch. 1]
Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright (eds.), Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance
John David Funge, "Journal of New Democratic Methods: An Introduction", cs.CY/0408048 [Probably crazy, but deserves a look at some point]
John Gastil, By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy through Deliberative Elections [Free online]
Paul Edward Gottfried, After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State
William Graebner, The Engineering of Consent: Democracy and Authority in Twentieth-Century America
Judith Gruber, Controlling Bureaucracies: Dilemmas in Democratic Governance [Online]
Thom Hartmann, What Would Jefferson Do? [Great title, if nothing else]
David Held, Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance
Robert Huckfeldt, Paul E. Johnson and John Sprague, Political Disagreement: The Survival of Diverse Opinions within Communication Networks
Vincent Hutchings, Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability: How Citizens Learn about Politics [blurb]
Charles Kurzman, Democracy Denied, 1905-1915: Intellectuals and the Fate of Democracy [blurb]
Leif Lewin, Democratic Accountability: Why Choice in Politics Is Both Possible and Necessary [Blurb]
Charles Lipson, Reliable Partners: How Democracies Have Made a Separate Peace [blurb]
Arthur Lupia and Matthew McCubbins, The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know?
Arthur Lupia and John G. Matsusaka, "Direct Democracy: New Approaches to Old Questions", Annual Review of Political Science 7 (2004): 463--482 [Abstract: "Until recently, direct democracy scholarship was primarily descriptive or normative. Much of it sought to highlight the processes' shortcomings. We describe new research that examines direct democracy from a more scientific perspective. We organize the discussion around four 'old' questions that have long been at the heart of the direct democracy debate: Are voters competent? What role does money play? How does direct democracy affect policy? Does direct democracy benefit the many or the few? We find that recent breakthroughs in theory and empirical analysis paint a comparatively positive picture of the initiative and referendum. For example, voters are more competent, and the relationship between money and power in direct democracy is less nefarious, than many observers allege. More new studies show that the mere presence of direct democracy induces sitting legislatures to govern more effectively."]
James Macdonald, A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy [Blurb, intro]
Gerry Mackie, Democracy Defended [blurb]
Giandomenico Majone, Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion in the Policy Process
Pierre Manent, A World Beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State [Blurb, intro]
Michael Mann, The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing
J. Mansbridge, Beyond Adversary Democracy
McMahon, Authority and Democracy
T. Mendelberg, "The deliberative citizen: theory and evidence", in M. X. Delli Carpini, L. Huddy and R. Shapiro, eds., Research in Micropolitics: Political Decisionmaking, Deliberation and Participation 6 (2002): 151--93 [Review of work on social psychology of group decision-making and argumentation relevant to democratic deliberation]
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, "Democracy, Volatility and Economic Development", The Review of Economics and Statistics 87 (2005): 348--361
Diana C. Mutz, Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy [blurb]
Neil Netanel, "Is the Commercial Mass Media Necessary, or Even Desirable, for Liberal Democracy?" cs.CY/0109092
Beth Simone Noveck, "A Democracy of Groups", First Monday November 2005
Josiah Ober
- Athenian Legacies: Essays of the Politics of Going on Together [Blurb, ch. 1]
- Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens [Blurb, ch. 1]
Conor O'Dwyer, Runaway State-Building: Patronage Politics and Democratic Development
Marina S. Ottaway, Democracy Challenged: The Rise of Semi-Authoritarianism
Adam Przeworski, Sustainable Democracy [blurb]
Adam Przeworski et al., Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950--1990 [Blurb]
Darius Rejali, Torture and Democracy [blurb]
Henry S. Richardson, Democratic Automony: Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy
John E. Roemer, Democracy, Education, and Equality [blurb]
Michael Saward (ed.), Democratic Innovation: Deliberation, Representation, and Association
Ian Shapiro
- Democracy's Place
- The State of Democratic Theory
Cass R. Sunstein, Why Societies Need Dissent
Charles Tilly, Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650--2000 [blurb]
Daniel Treisman, The Architecture of Government: Rethinking Political Decentralization [blurb]
Nadia Urbinati, Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy [blurb]
Frank Vibert, The Rise of the Unelected: Democracy and the New Separation of Powers [blurb]
Leonard Wantchekon, "The Paradox of Warlord Democracy: A Theoretical Investigation", American Political Science Review 98 (2004): 17--33 [When is liberty born from the quarrels of tyrants?]
Mark E. Warren, Democracy and Association [Chapter 1]
Donald A. Wittman, The Myth of Democratic Failure: Why Political Institutions Are Efficient [Blurb]
Sheldon S. Wolin, Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
David Zaret, Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions, andthe Public Sphere in Early-Modern England

Notebooks

Democracy