Democracy

Books:

Addams. Democracy and the Social Ethics (1902);

Apter. The Politics of Modernization (1965);

     -     Choice and the Politics of Allocation: A Developmental Theory (1971);

     -     Political Development and the New Realism in Sub-Saharan Africa (1993);

Aron. Democracy and Totalitarianism (1968, in French 1965);

Bauman. Memories of Class (1982);

     -     In Search of Politics (1999);

     -     Globalisation: The Human Consequences (1998);

Beck U. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (1992, in German 1986);

     -    Power in the Global Age (2005, in German 2002);

     -    Reflexive Modernization (1994);

     -     Democracy Without Enemies (1997);

     -     World Risk Society (1997);

Bottomore. Elites and Society, 2ed. (1993);

Bourdieu. Counterfire: Against the Tyranny of the Market (2003, in French 1998b);

Cardoso. Autoritarismo e democratização (1975);

     -     Charting a New Course: The Politics of Globalization and Social Transformation  (2001);

Castells. Rupture: the Crisis of Liberal Democracy (2018); 

Castoriadis. Democracy and Relativism: A Debate (2019);

Chase-Dunn. The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global Democracy (2000);

Collins P. Another Kind of Public Education: Race, the Media, Schools, and Democratic Possibilities (2009);

Cooley. Social Organization: A Study of the Larger Mind (1909);

Crozier. The Crisis of Democracy (1975);

Dahrendorf. Society and Democracy in Germany (1967, in German 1965); 

Dewey. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (1916);

Du Bois. Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace (1945);

Eisenstadt. Patterns of Modernity (1987);

Eisenstein. Sexual Decoys, Gender, Race and War in Imperial Democracy (2007);

Elster. Constitutionalism and Democracy (1988);

     -     Deliberative Democracy (1998); 

Engels. The Principles of Communism (2019, in German 1847);

Freyer. Theory of Objective Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Culture (1991, in German 1923);  

Fromm. Escape from Freedom (1941);

     -     The Sane Society (1955);

Gans. Democracy and the News (2003);

Geiger. Demokratic ohne Dogma (1964);

Giddens. Beyond Left and Right: The Future of Radical Politics (1994);

     -     The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (1998);

Giddings. Democracy and Empire (1900);

Gurvitch. Sociology of Law (1942); 

Habermas. Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (2015, in German 1992);

Held. Models of Democracy (1987);

     -     Democracy and the Global Order: from the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance (1995);

     -     Cosmopolitan Democracy: an Agenda for a New World Order (1995);

Hirst. Representative Democracy and its Limits (1990); 

     -     Associational Democracy: New Forms of Economic and Social Governance (1994);

Hobhouse. Democracy and Reaction (1905);

Hobsbowm. Globalization, Democracy and Terrorism (2007);

Horkheimer, and Adorno. Dialectics of the Enlightenment (1972, in German 1947b);

Huntington. The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies (1976);

     -     American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony (1981);

     -     The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (1991);

Inglehart. Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence (2005);

Irigaray. Democracy Begins Between Two (2000, in Italian 1984b);

Kellner. Television and the Crisis of Democracy (1990);

Latour. Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy (2005); 

     -     Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy (2004, in French 1999);

Lefebvre. Critique of Everyday Life: The Three-Volume Text (2014, in French 1947, 1961, 1968, 1981);

Lijphart. The Politics of Accommodation: Pluralism and Democracy in the Netherlands  (1968);

     -     Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration (1977);

     -     Democracies: Patterns of Majoritarian and Consensus Government in Twenty-one Countries (1984);

     -     Electoral Laws & Their Political Consequences (1986);

     -     Parliamentary versus Presidential Government (1992); 

     -     Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies 1945–1990 (1994);

     -     Institutional Design in New Democracies (1996);  

     -     Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-six Countries (1999);

     -     The Evolution of Electoral & Party Systems in the Nordic Countries (2002);

     -     Thinking about Democracy: Power Sharing and Majority Rule in Theory and Practice (2008);

     -     Institutional Design In New Democracies: Eastern Europe And Latin America (2018);

Linz. The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Crisis, Breakdown, and Reequilibration (1978);

     -     „The Perils of Presidentialism”, in Journal of Democracy (1990);

     -     Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe (1996);

Lipset. „Some Social Requisites of Democracy”, in American Political Science Review (1959);

     -     Political Man (1960);

     -     „The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited”, in American Sociological Review (1994);

     -     The Democratic Century (2004);

Mannheim. Diagnosis of our Time (1943);

     -     Freedom, Power and Democratic Planning (1951);

     -     Man & Society in the Age Reconstruction (2013, in German 1935);

Marx. The Communist Manifesto (in German 1948); 

     -     Class Struggles in France (in German 1850);

     -     The XVIII Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (in German 1852a);

Merton. Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth-century England (1936);

Michels. Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchial Tendencies of Modern Democracy (2016, in Italian 1911);

     -     First Lectures in Political Sociology (1949, in Italian 1927);

Miliband. Marxism and Politics (1977);

     -     Capitalist Democracy in Britain (1982);

Mills. The Power Elite (1956);

Moore. Social Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (1966);

Mosca. The Ruling Class (2018, in Italian 1896, 1923);

Mouffe. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (1985); 

     -     Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship, Community (1992);

     -     The Democratic Paradox (2000);

Mumford, Myrdal G. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944);

     -     Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations (1968);

Offe. Europe Entrapped (2015); 

Pakulski. Postcommunist Elites and Democracy in Eastern Europe (1998); 

     -     Toward Leader Democracy (2012); 

Pareto. The Transformation of Democracy (1984, in Italian 1921);

Piven. Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want it That Way (2000);

Przeworski. Capitalism and Social Democracy (1985); 

     -     Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America (1991);

     -     Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990 (2000); 

     -     Democracy and the Rule of Law (2003);

     -     Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government (2010);

     -     Democracy in a Russian Mirror (2015);

     -     Why Bother With Elections? (2018);

     -     Crises of Democracy (2019); 

Poulantzas. The Crisis of Dictatorships: Portugal, Greece, Spain (1976, in French 1975);

Said. Humanism and Democratic Criticism (2004);   

Schnapper. The Democratic Spirit of Law (2016, in French 2015a);

     -     Providential Democracy: An Essay on Contemporary Equality (2017, in French 2002);

Schumpeter. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942);

Skocpol. Civic Engagement in American Democracy (1999);

     -     Diminished Democracy (2003);

Small. Between Eras: From Capitalism to Democracy (1913);

Spencer. On The Proper Sphere of Government (1843);

     -     The Study of Sociology (1873);

     -     Principles of Sociology, 3 vols. (1876-1896);

     -     The Man Versus the State (1884);

Stouffer, Sumner, Tilly. From Contention to Democracy (1998);

     -     Contention and Democracy in Europe: 1650–2000 (2004a);

     -     Democracy (2007);

Tocqueville. Democracy in America (2021, in French 1835, 1840);

Toffler. The Third Wave (1980);

Tönnies. Community and Society (2021, in German 1887);

Touraine. The Post-Industrial Society (1971, in French 1969); 

Van den Berghe. Multicultural Democracy: Can it Work? (2002);

Wilensky. Democratic Corporatism and Policy Linkages (1987);

     -     Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy, and Performance (2002);

Wright. Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance (2003).

 

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