Blaug, Richard, and John Schwarzmantel, eds.Democracy: A Reader. Columbia University Press, 2001. What is democracy? This reader explains the views of its notable supporters, defenders, and critics.
Dahl, Robert Alan.Democracy and Its Critics. Yale University Press, 1991. Defense of democracy by one of its foremost academic proponents.
de Tocqueville, Alexis.Democracy in America. University of Chicago Press, 2001. Classic work, first published in the 1830s.
Foner, Eric.The Story of American Freedom. Norton, 1998. Frames American history as a continuing fight for freedom and democracy.
Brinkley, Alan.Liberalism and Its Discontents. Harvard University Press, 1997. Compilation of essays that explore the history of liberalism in the United States since the 1930s.
Jenkins, Roy.The British Liberal Tradition. University of Toronto Press, 2001. A lecture delivered at the University of Toronto in which Sir Roy traces the rise and fall of British liberalism from Gladstone to the present.
Mill, John Stuart.On Liberty and Other Essays. Cambridge University Press, 1991. Classic text of modern liberalism; also includes “The Subjection of Women” and posthumously published “Chapters on Socialism.”
Beitz, Charles R.Political Theory and International Relations. Rev. ed. Princeton University Press, 1999. The author's view of what international relations and political theory should be.
De Tocqueville, Alexis. Ed. J. P. Mayer.Trans. George Lawrence.Democracy in America. HarperCollins, 1988. Portrait of American character, politics, and life by a man who considered American democracy the greatest political experiment of modern times. A classic work first published in the 1830s.
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