…On Democracy and Authoritarianism
Alberta, Tim. (2023). The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory. American Evangelicals n an Age of Extremism. New York: Harper.
Applebaum, Anne. (2020). Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism. Doubleday.
Arato, Andrew and Cohen, Jean. (2022). Populism and Civil Society. The Challenge to Constitutional Democracy. London: Oxford Press.
Berman, Ari (2024). Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People – and the Fight to Resist. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Bernstein, Richard. (2018). Why Read Hannah Arendt Now. Polity.
Dukalskis, Alexander (2021). Making the World Safe for Dictatorship. London: Oxford Press.
Fukuyama, Francis. (2022). Liberalism and its Discontents. New York: Farra, Straus and Giroux.
Gorski, Phillip (2020). American Babylon. Christianity and Democracy Before and After Trump. London: Routledge.
Hoffer, Eric. (1951). The True Believer. Harper Collins e-books.
Kazin, Michael. (2017). The Populist Persuasion. An American History (revised edition). New York: Basic Books.
Kendall-Taylor, Andreas, Lindstaedt, Natasha, & Frantz, Erica. (2019). Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes. New York: Oxford Press.
Levisky, Steven and Ziblatt, Daniel. (2023). The Tyranny of the Minority. New York: Crown.
MacLean, Nancy (2017). Democracy in Chains. The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America. New York: Penguin.
Repucci, Sarah and Slipowitz, Amy. (2021). Freedom in the World 2021. Washington D.C.: Freedom House.
Richardson, Heather Cox (2023). Democracy Awakening. Notes on the State of America. New York: Viking.
Roberts-Miller, Patricia. (2017). Demagoguery and Democracy. New York: The Experiment.
Sunstein, Cass. (2018). Can it Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America. Dey Street Books.
Stenner, Karen. (2005). The Authoritarian Dynamic. Cambridge University Press.
Stanley, Jason. (2020). How Fascism Works. New York: Random House.
Snyder, Timothy. (2018). The Road to Unfreedom: Russia – Europe – America. New York: Penguin Random House.
…On Reinventing Democracy
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. (2020). Our Common Purpose. Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century. Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences. https://www.amacad.org/ourcommonpurpose/report
Boucher, Stephen, Hallin, Carina Antonia, and Paulson, Lex (2023). The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance. New York: Routledge. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/112852
Educating for American Democracy Initiative. (2021). Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy. Washington DC: NEH. https://www.educatingforamericandemocracy.org/
Grzymala-Busse, Anna, Kuo, Didi, Fukuyama, Francis, and McFaul, Michael. (2020). Global Populisms and Their Challenges. Palto Alto, CA: Stanford – Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. https://fsi.stanford.edu/global-populisms/global-populisms-and-their-challenges
Pearse, Harry (2022). Refurbishing Democracy: More Direct, More Deliberative, and Younger. Perspective on Public Management and Governance, 5, pp. 11-15. https://doi.org/10.1093/ppmgov/gvab029
…On Surveys of Interest and Importance
(Go to Pew Research Center and search on titles)
Pew Research Center (2023). Americans’ Dismal Views of the Nation’s Politics.
Pew Research Center (2022). Americans’ Views of Government: Decades of Distrust, Enduring Support for its Role.
…On Neoliberalism
David Harvey (2005). A Brief History of Neoliberalism. London: Oxford University Press.
Daniel Stedman Jones (2012). Masters of the University: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics. Princeton University Press.
Gary Gerstle (2022). The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order. London: Oxford University Press.