These selections were made by McDermott Library staff to inform discussion and debate on the theme of Rebuilding Democracy.
Accetti, C. I. (2020, December 29). The quiet and dangerous way U.S. politics is becoming Europeanized. Foreign Policy. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/29/quiet-dangerous-u-s-politics-becoming-europeanized-polarized-pluralism/ 
Achen, C. H., & Bartels, L. M. (2017). Democracy for realists: Why elections do not produce responsive government. Princeton University Press. 
Afzal, M. (2021, January 25). A global effort to counter extremism through education. Brookings. https://www.brookings.edu/research/a-global-effort-to-counter-extremism-through-education/
Albright, M. (2019). Fascism: A warning. Harper Collins.
Anderson, C., & Durbin, R. J. (2019). One person, no vote: How voter suppression is destroying our democracy. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Applebaum, A. (2021). Twilight of democracy: The seductive lure of the authoritarian state. Signal.
Arbatli, E., & Rosenberg, D. (2021). United we stand, divided we rule: How political polarization erodes democracy. Democratization, 28(2), 285–307. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2020.1818068
Aslam, A., McIvor, D., & Schlosser, J. A. (2019). Democratic theory when democracy is fugitive. Democratic Theory, 6(2), 27–40. https://doi.org/10.3167/dt.2019.060204
Atkinson, C. L. (2014). Military soft power: Public diplomacy through military educational exchanges. Rowman & Littlefield.
Beijerman, M. (2018). Practice what you preach? Limitations to imposing democratic norms on NGOs. International Community Law Review, 20(1), 3–29. https://doi.org/10.1163/18719732-12341364
Berger, J. M. (2018). Extremism. The MIT Press.
Bergner, J. (2017). The Congressional apprentice: How Trump is approaching Capitol Hill. Foreign Affairs, 96(5), 99–107.
Berry, J. M., & Sobieraj, S. (2016). The outrage industry: Political opinion media and the new incivility. Oxford University Press.
Bimber, B. A. (2011). Information and American democracy: Technology in the evolution of political power. Cambridge University Press.
Birch, S. (2018). Democratic norms, empirical realities and approaches to improving voter turnout. Res Publica: A Journal of Legal and Social Philosophy, 24(1), 9–30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-017-9380-3
Bishop, B., & Cushing, R. G. (2009). The big sort: Why the clustering of like-minded America is tearing us apart. Mariner Books.
Bouandel, Y. (2018). Harakat Mujtama’ al-Silm: Democratic learning in Algeria. Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 11(2), 199–214. https://doi.org/10.1386/jammr.11.2.199_1
Burns, N., Schlozman, K. L., & Verba, S. (2001). The private roots of public action: Gender, equality, and political participation. Harvard University Press.
Cartledge, P. (2018). Democracy: A life. Oxford University Press.
Chen, Y., & Szeto, M. M. (2015). The forgotten road of progressive localism: New Preservation Movement in Hong Kong. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 16(3), 436–453. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2015.1071694
Congressional Hispanic Staff Association (CHSA). (2020). Still unrepresented: A 10-year look at the diversity crisis on Capitol Hill. Harvard Kennedy School Journal of Hispanic Policy. https://hjhp.hkspublications.org/2020/08/09/still-unrepresented-a-10-year-look-at-the-diversity-crisis-on-capitol-hill/
Coppedge, M., Gerring, J., Altman, D., Bernhard, M., Fish, S., Hicken, A., Kroenig, M., Lindberg, S., & McMann, K. (2011). Conceptualizing and measuring democracy: A new approach. Perspectives on Politics, 9, 247–267. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592711000880
Daniels, G. R. (2020). Uncounted: The crisis of voter suppression in America. New York University Press.
Deneen, P. J. (2019). Why liberalism failed. Yale University Press.
Dennis, J. (2019). Beyond slacktivism political participation on social media. Palgrave Macmillan.
Diamond, L. (2016). In search of democracy. Routledge.
Dunn, J. (2005). Democracy: A history. Penguin.
Edel, C. (2019, September 10). Democracy is fighting for its life. Foreign Policy. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/09/10/democracy-is-fighting-for-its-life/
Escribà-Folch, A., Muradova, L. H., & Rodon, T. (2021). The effects of autocratic characteristics on public opinion toward democracy promotion policies: A conjoint analysis. Foreign Policy Analysis, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/oraa016
Fiorina, M. P. (2017). Unstable majorities: Polarization, party sorting, and political stalemate. Hoover Institution Press.
Fisher, L. (2013). Presidential war power. Kansas University Press.
Garcia-Guadilla, M. P., & Mallen, A. (2019). Polarization, participatory democracy, and democratic erosion in Venezuela’s twenty-first century socialism. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 681, 62–77. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716218817733
Gilens, M., & Page, B. I. (2014). Testing theories of American politics: Elites, interest groups, and average citizens. Perspectives on Politics, 12(3), 564–581. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592714001595
Gill, B., Whitesell, E. R., Corcoran, S. P., Tilley, C., Finucane, M., & Potamites, L. (2020). Can charter schools boost civic participation? The impact of democracy prep public schools on voting behavior. American Political Science Review, 114(4), 1386–1392. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000305542000057X
Ginsburg, T., & Huq, A. Z. (2020). How to save a constitutional democracy. The University of Chicago Press.
Goldberg, J., Applebaum, A., Murphy, C., & the writers of the Atlantic. (2020). The American crisis: What went wrong, how we recover. Simon and Schuster.
Goldstein, D. (2019, April 7). Is the U.S. a democracy? A social studies battle turns on the nation’s values. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/us/usa-democracy.html
Gopnik, A. (2020, December 27). What we get wrong about America’s crisis of democracy. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/what-we-get-wrong-about-americas-crisis-of-democracy
Gordon, M. (2018). Lying in politics: Fake news, alternative facts, and the challenges for deliberative civics education. Educational Theory, 68(1), 49–64. https://doi.org/10.1111/edth.12288
Graber, D. A. (2011). Media power in politics. CQ Press.
Greenhill, B. (2020). How can international organizations shape public opinion? Analysis of a pair of survey-based experiments. The Review of International Organizations, 15(1), 165–188. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-018-9325-4
Greitens, S. C. (2020). Surveillance, security, and liberal democracy in the post-COVID world. International Organization, 74(S1), E169–E190. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818320000417
Grinspan, J. (2016). The virgin vote: How young Americans made democracy social, politics personal, and voting popular in the nineteenth century. The University of North Carolina Press.
Guasti, P. (2020). Populism in power and democracy: Democratic decay and resilience in the Czech Republic (2013-2020). Politics & Governance, 8(4), 473–484. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i4.3420
Held, D. (2006). Models of democracy (3rd ed.). Stanford University Press.
Hiroko, N. (2020). Legalization of the Chinese Communist Party’s governance over Hong Kong. The Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies, 9(2), 157–174. https://doi.org/10.1080/24761028.2020.1847417
Hu, W., & Meng, W. (2020). The US Indo-Pacific strategy and China’s response. China Review, 20(3), 143–176.
Imai, K., & Khawar, M. (2019). Geography, culture, institutions, and economy: Effects on democracy. International Journal on World Peace, 36(2), 61–98.
Jaffe, S. (2017). Necessary trouble: Americans in revolt. Nation Books.
Jinrui, X., & Primiano, C. (2020). China’s influence in Asia: How do individual perceptions matter? East Asia: An International Quarterly, 37(3), 181–202. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12140-020-09334-x
Johnson, D. (2019). Blockchain-based voting in the US and EU constitutional orders: A digital technology to secure democratic values? European Journal of Risk Regulation, 10(2), 330–358. https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2019.40
Jones, S. G., Doxsee, C., Hwang, G., & Thompson, J. (2021). The military, police, and the rise of terrorism in the United States (CSIS Briefs). Center for Strategic & International Studies. https://www.csis.org/analysis/military-police-and-rise-terrorism-united-states
Keegan, P. (2021). Critical affective civic literacy: A framework for attending to political emotion in the social studies classroom. Journal of Social Studies Research, 45(1), 15–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssr.2020.06.003
Kendall-Taylor, A. (2019). Democracies and authoritarian regimes. Oxford University Press.
Kennedy, S. (2019). Civic ignorance and democratic accountability. Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, 51(2), 419–429.
Kimball, R. (2020). Who rules? Sovereignty, nationalism, and the fate of freedom in the twenty-first century. Encounter Books.
Klaas, B. P. (2018). The despot’s accomplice: How the West is aiding and abetting the decline of democracy.
Klein, E. (2021). Why we’re polarized. Avid Reader Press.
Koehler, D. (2019). A threat from within? Exploring the link between the extreme right and the military (ICCT Policy Brief). International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague. https://icct.nl/app/uploads/2019/09/ICCT-Koehler-A-Threat-from-Within-Exploring-the-Link-between-the-Extreme-Right-and-the-Military.pdf
Krastev, I., & Holmes, S. (2019). The light that failed: Why the West is losing the fight for democracy. Pegasus Books.
Lacher, H. (2019). Karl Polanyi, the “always-embedded market economy,” and the re-writing of The Great Transformation. Theory and Society, 48(5), 671–707. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-019-09359-z
Ladwig, W. C., & Mukherjee, A. (2019). India and the United States: The Contours of an Asian Partnership. Asia Policy, 14(1), 3–18. https://doi.org/10.1353/asp.2019.0012
Laebens, M. G., & Lührmann, A. (2021). What halts democratic erosion? The changing role of accountability. Democratization, 28(5), 908–928. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2021.1897109
Landemore, H. (2020). Open democracy: Reinventing popular rule for the twenty-first century. Princeton University Press.
Larik, J., Durch, W., & Ponzio, R. (2020). Reinvigorating global governance through “Just security.” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, 44(1), 15–31.
Lau, J. Y. F. (2019). Reflections on the Umbrella Movement: Implications for civic education and critical thinking. Educational Philosophy & Theory, 51(2), 163–174. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2017.1310014
Lee, F. E., & McCarty, N. M. (2019). Can America govern itself? Cambridge University Press.
Levine, P. (2016). We are the ones we have been waiting for: The promise of civic renewal in America. Oxford University Press.
Levitsky, S., & Ziblatt, D. (2018, January 21). This is how democracies die. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2018/jan/21/this-is-how-democracies-die
Levitsky, S., & Ziblatt, D. (2020). The crisis of American democracy. American Educator, 44, 6–13, 50.
Li, X. (2021). The durability of China’s lawmaking process under Xi Jinping: A tale of two foreign investment laws. Issues and Studies, 57(1), 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S10132.51121500016
Lind, M. (2016, May 14). Opinion | Is there too much democracy in America or too little? The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/opinion/campaign-stops/is-there-too-much-democracy-in-america-or-too-little.html
Löfflman, G. (2019). The Obama Doctrine and military intervention. Perceptions, 24(1), 59–82.
Lyall, J. (2020). Divided armies: Inequality and battlefield performance in modern war. Princeton University Press.
Maio, C. B. and G. D. (2020, August 17). Democracy after coronavirus: Five challenges for the 2020s. Brookings. https://www.brookings.edu/research/democracy-after-coronavirus-five-challenges-for-the-2020s/
Mann, T. E., & Ornstein, N. J. (2013). It’s even worse than it looks: How the American constitutional system collided with the new politics of extremism. Basic Books.
Mann, T. E., & Ornstein, N. J. (2016). It’s even worse than it looks: How the American constitutional system collided with the new politics of extremism (Revised and expanded edition). Basic Books.
Manwaring, R. (2015). A false grail? Labour and the pursuit of democracy. Renewal, 23(4), 55–69.
Massaro, T. M., Pidot, J. R., & Slepian, M. (2021). Pandemics and the Constitution. Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 21-01. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3635668
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