Democracy Thematic Year
Resources and readings related to democracy
What is Democracy?
- Democracy in One Book or Less by David LittRecommended by CSU's Straayer Center for Public Service Leadership
- Democracy for Realists by Christopher H. Achen (Afterword by); Larry M. Bartels (Afterword by)Recommended by CSU's Straayer Center for Public Service Leadership
The History of Democracy
- The Decline and Rise of Democracy by David StasavageRecommended by CSU's Straayer Center for Public Service Leadership
- The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber; David WengrowRecommended by CSU's Straayer Center for Public Service Leadership
- Four Threats by Suzanne Mettler; Robert C. LiebermanRecommended by CSU's Straayer Center for Public Service Leadership
- Continental Reckoning by Elliott WestRecommended by CSU's Straayer Center for Public Service Leadership
Threats to Democracy
- How Civil Wars Start by Barbara F. WalterRecommended by CSU's Straayer Center for Public Service Leadership
- Twilight of Democracy by Anne ApplebaumRecommended by CSU's Straayer Center for Public Service Leadership
- Laboratories Against Democracy by Jacob M. GrumbachRecommended by CSU's Straayer Center for Public Service Leadership
- How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky; Daniel ZiblattRecommended by CSU's Straayer Center for Public Service Leadership
Democracy Outside the United States
- The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy SnyderRecommended by CSU's Straayer Center for Public Service Leadership
- Latino Social Movements by Rodolfo D. Torres (Editor); George Katsiaficas (Editor)Recommended by Jimena Sagas, Associate Professor, Interim Head of Student Success
- A New History of Modern Latin America by Lawrence A. Clayton; Michael L. Conniff; Susan M. GaussRecommended by Jimena Sagas, Associate Professor, Interim Head of Student Success
- The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela; E. Munguia (Translator); Beth Jorgensen (Revised by); Ilan Stavans (Introduction by)Recommended by Jimena Sagas, Associate Professor, Interim Head of Student Success
- Deliberations in Dance: Affecting Publics and the Politics of Ethnicity in Guinea’s Nascent Democracy by Adrienne CohenScholarly Article from the journal "African Studies Review"
- Multimodal Feminist Testimony: on Ambiguity, Embodiment, and Evidence in Guinea by Adrienne CohenScholarly Article from the HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory
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