• Two essays on democracy by Amartya Sen
• "Democracy" by Amy Gutmann from A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy 
• "Democratic Theory" by Ian Shapiro
• "Enough of Deliberation" by Ian Shapiro in Stephen Macedo (Ed.) Deliberative Politics
• "Think Again: Middle East Democracy" by Marina Ottaway and Thomas Carothers
• "The End of the Transition Paradigm" by Thomas Carothers
• "Learning from Athens" by Joshua Ober
• "Minimalist Conception of Democracy" by Adam Przeworski in Democracy's Value
• "Deliberation Before The Revolution" by Archon Fung
• "Deepening Democracy" by Archon Fung & Erik Olin Wright
• "Deliberative Participation in Local Development" by David Crocker
• "Sen and Deliberative Democracy" by David Crocker
• "No Democracy without Justice" by Sharath Srinivasan
• "Introduction and Approach" by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen
• "The Practice of Democracy" by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen
• "Thinking about Empowered Participatory Governance" by Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright
• "Participation, Activism, and Politics" by Gianpaolo Baiocchi
• "Democracy and Development" by T.M. Thomas Isaac and Patrick Heller
• "Deliberative Democracy, Chicago Style" by Archon Fung
• "Practice-Thought-Practice" by Jane Mansbridge
• "Debating the Transition Paradigm" by Thomas Carothers

Selected chapters from Joe Siegle's book
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• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Endnotes
• Bibliography