Books, Chapters,Articles:

Crick, Bernard. Democracy : A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002

Dahl, Robert, et. al., eds., The Democracy Sourcebook. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2003.

Held, David, Models of Democracy, 2nd ed., Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.

Schmitter, Phillipe C. and Karl, Terry Lynn. "What Democracy is...and is not," in Journal of Democracy, 2.3, pp. 75-88.

Samons, Loren J. What's Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worshp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004

Sen, Amartya, "Democracyas a Universal Value," in Journalof Democracy, 10.3 (1999), pp. 3-17.

American Political Science Association, American Democracy in an Age of Inequality (2004) [PDF]

• APSA, Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy

Internet Sources:

Useful background informationon government in ancient Athens can be found at the following websites:

• Athenian Politics and Government
• Ancient Greece: Athens
• The Athenian Origins of Direct Democracy