General work on democracy and its history:
Dahl, R. A. (1971). Poliarchy: participation and opposition, New Haven, Yale University Press.
Held, D. (2006). Models of democracy. Cambridge, Polity.
Muller, J. W. (2011). Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe. Yale University Press.
O’Donnell, G. A. (1994). Delegative democracy. Journal of democracy, 5(1), 55-69.
Skinner, Q. (1978), The foundations of modern political thought, Cambridge, CUP (2 volumes).
Beyme, K. V. (2000). Parliamentary democracy: democratization, destabilization, reconsolidation, 1789-1999. London: Palgrave
Blockmans, W.P. (1998), “Representation”. In: Allmand, C. (Ed.), The New Cambridge Medieval History., Vol. VII c. 1415-c. 1500, Cambridge, CUP, pp. 29-64.
Cain, B. E., Dalton, R. J., & Scarrow, S. E. (Eds.). (2006). Democracy transformed? Expanding political opportunities in advanced industrial democracies. New York: Oxford University Press.
North, D. C., & Weingast, B. R. (1989). Constitutions and commitment: the evolution of institutions governing public choice in seventeenth-century England. The journal of economic history, 49(04), 803-832.
Norris, P. (2011). Democratic deficit. New York, Cambridge University Press.
Persson, T., & Tabellini, G. E. (2003). The economic effects of constitutions. MIT press.
Przeworski, A. (2010). Democracy and the limits of self-government. New York, Cambridge University Press.
Streeck, W. (2014), Buying Time. The delayed crisis of democratic capitalism, London: Verso.
Institutional variety and quality of democracy:
Downs, A. (1957). An economic theory of democracy. New York: Harper
Kriesi, H., Bochsler, D., Matthes, J., Lavenex, S., Buhlmann, M., & Esser, F. (2013). Democracy in the Age of Globalization and Mediatization. Palgrave Macmillan.
Lijphart, A. (2012). Patterns of democracy: Government forms and performance in thirty-six countries. Yale University Press.
Powell Jr, G. B., & Whitten, G. D. (1993). A cross-national analysis of economic voting: taking account of the political context. American Journal of Political Science, 37(2), 391-414.
Soroka, S. N., & Wlezien, C. (2010). Degrees of democracy: Politics, public opinion, and policy. Cambridge University Press.
Tsebelis, G. (2002). Veto players: How political institutions work. Princeton University Press.
Globalization:
Buthe, T., & Mattli, W. (2011). The new global rulers: The privatization of regulation in the world economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Papadopoulos, Y. (2013), Democracy in crisis? Politics, Governance and Policy, London: Palgrave.
Rodrik, D. (2011). The globalization paradox: democracy and the future of the world economy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Scharpf, F. W. (1999). Governing Europe. Effective and Legitimate. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Vibert, F. (2007). The rise of the unelected: democracy and the new separation of powers. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Inequality:
Bartels, L. M. (2009). Unequal democracy: The political economy of the new gilded age. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Gilens, M. (2012). Affluence and Influence. Economic inequality and political power in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Iversen, T., & Soskice, D. (2006). Electoral institutions and the politics of coalitions: Why some democracies redistribute more than others. American Political Science Review, 100(2), 165-181.
Kenworthy, L., & Pontusson, J. (2005). Rising inequality and the politics of redistribution in affluent countries. Perspectives on Politics, vol. 3, no. 3, 449-471.
Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the 21st Century, Cambridge (Mass.), Havard University Press.
Savoia, A., Easaw, J., & McKay, A. (2010). Inequality, democracy, and institutions: A critical review of recent research. World Development, 38(2), 142-154.
Cleavages, values and attitudes:
Dalton, R. J., & Klingemann, H. D. (Eds.). (2007). The Oxford handbook of political behavior. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dalton, R. J., (2004). Democratic challenges. Democratic choices. The erosion of political support in advanced industrial democracies. New York: Oxford University Press.
Dalton, R. J. (2008). Citizen politics: Public opinion and political parties in advanced industrial democracies. London, Sage.
Norris, P. (2005). Radical right: Voters and parties in the electoral market. New York, Cambridge University Press.
Norris, P. (2002). Democratic phoenix: Reinventing political activism. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Norris, P. (Ed.). (1999). Critical Citizens: Global Support for Democratic Government: Global Support for Democratic Government. Oxford University Press.
Mainwaring, S., & Zoco, E. (2007). Political Sequences and the Stabilization of Interparty Competition Electoral Volatility in Old and New Democracies. Party Politics, 13(2), 155-178.
Norris, P. (2002). Democratic phoenix: Reinventing political activism. New York, Cambridge University Press.
Tavits, M. (2008). On the linkage between electoral volatility and party system instability in Central and Eastern Europe. European Journal of Political Research, 47(5), 537-555.
Media, mediatization and populism:
Albertazzi, D., & McDonnell, D. (eds.). (2007). Twenty-first century populism. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Baumgartner, F. R., Boydstun, A. & de Boeuf, S. (2008). The decline of the death penalty and the discovery of innocence. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Kriesi, H., Bochsler, D., Matthes, J., Lavenex, S., Bhlmann, M., & Esser, F. (2013). Democracy in the Age of Globalization and Mediatization. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Marks, G., & Steenbergen, M. R. (Eds.). (2004). European integration and political conflict. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Prior, M. (2007). Post-broadcast democracy: How media choice increases inequality in political involvement and polarizes elections. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Soroka, S. (2014), Negativity in Democratic Politics. Causes and consequences, New York: Cambridge University Press.
