Books, Chapters,Articles:

Anderson, Lisa, ed. Transitions to Democracy.New York, 1999.

Haggard, Stephan, Kaufman, and Robert R. ThePolitical Economy of Democratic Transitions. Princeton,1995.

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

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

Internet:

Freedom House (www.freedomhouse.org). Especially useful is the annual Freedom in the World Report

Elections by Country - Wikipedia Up-to-date election results from countries around the world.

Elections Around the World. Includes detailed elections results and information about political parties and parliaments.

InternationalInstitute for Democracy and ElectoralAssistance (http://www.idea.int/).Extensive electoral data, including voter turnout since1945.

PoliticalResources on the Net(http://www.politicalresources.net/). An excellent source forpolitical information about most any country in theworld.

WorldAudit(http://www.worldaudit.org/). A websource for country-by-country information on democracy, human rights,and corruption.

InternationalFoundation for Election Systems (IFES) ElectionGuide(http://www.ifes.org/eguide/elecguide.htm)

20th Century Governments (Matthew White)

Community of Democracies Conference, Warsaw, June 2000 (http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/democracy/cdi_index.html)

USDepartment of State BackgroundNotes(http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/index.html).

CNNWorld (http://WWW.CNN.COM/WORLD/).For information on recent events in countries around the world. Ofparticular interest: CNNWorld Election Watch(http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/election.watch/)

CIAWorld Factbook(http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html).Statistical information for all countries.