Essential Principles and History
Books
Levitsky, Steven and Daniel Ziblatt
How Democracies Die (2018) New York: Crown Publishers.
Madison, James
Federalist Papers No. 10, No. 47, and No. 51, Dec. 1788 (National Archives).
Other Resources
The Avalon Project
- Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy (2008)
- 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, 1865–70
- Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965
- “Citizens United Explained”, by Tim Lau, December 12, 2019.
- “Voting Laws Round-up: October 2022”.
Diamond, Larry
“The Long Struggle for Voting Rights,” The American Interest, June 9, 2020.
Douglass, Frederick
“An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage,” The Atlantic, January 1867.
Hassan, Richard
“The U.S. Lacks What Every Democracy Needs,” The New York Times, January 16, 2024.
Levitsky, Steven and Daniel Ziblatt
“The Crisis of American Democracy,” American Educator, Fall 2020. (PDF).
Lewis, John
“Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of the Nation,” and “Why We Published John Lewis’s Essay” by Kathleen Kingsley, The New York Times, July 30, 2020.
The New York Times
- “[Women’s] Suffrage at 100: A Visual History,” August 20, 2020.
- “Elections and Disinformation Collide in 2024,” January 22 2024.
The Washington Post
- “Do Voter ID Laws Suppress Minority Voting? Yes. We Did the Research,” (February 15, 2017).
- “Who Owned Slaves in Congress? A list of 1,800 Enslavers in Senate, House History,” January 10, 2022.
Thornton, Laura
“America’s Anti-Democratic Spectacle,” The Hill (December 19, 2022)
United States Congress
Select Committee to Investigate January 6 Attack on the US Capitol Report (December 22, 2022).
United States Department of Justice
United States v. Donald Trump (in the matter of January 6, 2023).
Poland
Economist magazine: Topics: Poland.
The New York Times: World Topics: Poland. See, for example,
- “Polish Right Occupies State TV,” Dec. 23, 2023.
- “Standoff at Presidential Palace Shows Poland’s Right Won’t Go Away Quietly,” January 14, 2024.
- “In Poland, I Saw What a Second Trump Term Could Do in America” by Michelle Goldberg, Feb. 6, 2024.
Ash, Timothy Garton
The Polish Revolution. 3rd ed. (2002). New Haven: Yale University Press.
Other Resources
Foreign Affairs
- “Don’t Give Poland a Pass,” Piotr Kosicki, July 24, 2023.
- “Poland’s Post-Populist Rehab,” by Jaroslaw Kuisz and Karolina Wigura, Mar. 12, 2024.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
“Solidarity: The Trade Union That Changed the World” (August 25, 2005).
Just Security
“Poland’s Judicial Reforms Fall Short of EU Expectations” (October 4, 2022).
U.S. Department of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year Country Report and scroll down to Europe and Eurasia/Poland).
Venezuela
Economist magazine: Topics Index: Venezuela.
The New York Times: World Topics: Venezuela.
Other Resources
International Crisis Group/Venezuela.
Organization of American States
- Secretary General Letter to the CNE, December 6 Elections (Nov. 10, 2015).
- Secretary General Letter to the President of Venezuela (Jan. 12, 2016).
The Washington Post.
“Venezuela on the Brink of Complete Economic Collapse” (Jan. 29, 2016).
U.S. Department of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year Country Report and scroll down to Western Hemisphere/Venezuela).
Azerbaijan
Economist magazine: Topics Index: Azerbaijan.
The New York Times: World Topics: Azerbaijan.
Other Resources
The Guardian
Plush Hotels and Caviar Diplomacy: How Azerbaijan Elite Woo MPs” (Nov. 23, 2013).
Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe
“Observer Mission to October 3, 2003 Presidential Elections”.
U.S. Department of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to Current Year report and scroll down to Europe and Eurasia/Azerbaijan).
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