1. After Pakistan's Election
   Against The Current vol. 133
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2008
   Throughout Pakistan the massive anti-Musharraf vote on 18 February, 2008 spoke volumes: We do not like the military dictatorship; we want Musharraf out.
2. Community Economic Workshops
   An Evolutionary Preparation for Social Revolution to Economic Democracy Within an Ecological Society
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1979
   A short discussion of the use of "community economic workshops" in constructing a democratic, anarchistic society.
3. Connexions
   Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1980
   
4. Connexions Digest
   Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1989
   
5. The History of Costa Rica
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1998   Published: 2007
   An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
6. The History of Democracy 
   A Marxist Interpretation
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2013
   Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
7. Inside Iran
   New Internationalist March 2007
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 2007
   A look at Iran from history to present. Discussion of women's rights and the youth of Iran.
8. Inventing the People
   The Rise of Popular Sovereignity in England and America
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1989
   The author makes the case that the United States has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. Morgan ties the notion of popular sovereignty to the older, equally fictional notion, the "divine right of kings."
9. Islam, Politics and the State
   The Pakistan Experience
   Resource Type: Book
   Mohammad Asghar Khan, prominent in the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, has assembled leading Pakistani scholars at home and abroad to assess critically the consequences of Zia's Islamicisation measures, and the relationship between Islam and politics. The history of right-wing Islamic movements and the current Islamicisation drive are examined.
10. It's Time for the Left to Ask "What Are We For?"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Sarah Jaffe interviewed Maria Poblet. Maria Poblet has been working in base building and community organizing in the Bay Area for 18 years, building Causa Justa Just Cause, a democratically held grassroots organization where she is currently transitioning out of the role of executive director.
11. Life after Communism West goes East
    New Internationalist April 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look at the effects of communist rule in the former Soviet Union and the post-communism transition.
12. The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Ths book explores how democracy is constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class.
13. The No State Solution: Institutionalizing Libertarian Socialism in Kurdistan
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    In what many outside of the territory are referring to as the Rojava Revolution, a major shift in political philosophy and political programmatics has taken place in Kurdistan.
14. Our Generation
    Volume 6 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1969
    
15. Our Generation
    Volume 6 Number 4
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1969
    
16. Peasant, Citizen and Slave 
    The Foundations of Athenian Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Wood argues that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labour. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts for much that is remarkable in Athenian political institutions and culture.
17. Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
18. Radical Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Lummis revives the meaning of democratic struggle and critques the economic and technological processes that have hindered its growth.
19. Reveille for Radicals 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1969
    Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
20. S.M. Lipset
    Social Scientist of the Smooth Society
    Resource Type: Article
    A critique of S.M. Lipset's book Political Man, this article problematizes the assumptions made by social scientists.
21. Sanctioning Apartheid
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A useful guide to the background of apartheid and understanding current developments, particularly the success of the mass democratic movement in weakening racist policy.
22. Socialist Register 1995
    Volume 31: Why Not Capitalism?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1995
    
23. Street Level Democracy
    Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    A wide-ranging book that traces the conflicts between global power and local action. People in farming communities, town mosques, city markets, and fishing communities suffer the effects of wrenching change and grapple with the politics of everyday life.
24. We Make the Road By Walking 
    Conversations on education and social change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Horton, the founder of the Highlander Folk School, and Freire, a Brazilian education leader, are from two different backgrounds, but their shared views on the use of participatory education in bringing about social change are the basis for this thought-provoking book.
25. West Papua "Will we ever be free"
    New Internationalist April 2002
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2002
    Discusses the effects of the oil industry on West Papua and the people's struggle for freedom and a new form of governemnt after a long history of betrayal. Also looks at West Papuan culture from a tourist's perspective.

Experts on Desarrollo Democr tico in the Sources Directory

1. Central American Integration System
2. Fair Vote Canada
3. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
4. United Nations