Editing Democratization (section)

=== Key works ===
* Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson. 2006. ''Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy.'' New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
* Albertus, Michael and Victor Menaldo. 2018. ''Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy''. New York: Cambridge University Press.
* Berman, Sheri. 2019. ''Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day''. New York: Oxford University Press.
* Boix, Carles. 2003. ''Democracy and Redistribution''. New York: Cambridge University Press
* Brancati, Dawn. 2016. ''Democracy Protests: Origins, Features and Significance''. New York: Cambridge University Press
* Carothers, Thomas. 1999. ''Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve''. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
* Collier, Ruth Berins. 1999. ''Paths Toward Democracy: Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America''. New York: Cambridge University Press
* Coppedge, Michael, Amanda Edgell, Carl Henrik Knutsen, and Staffan I. Lindberg (eds.). 2022. ''Why Democracies Develop and Decline''. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
* Fukuyama, Francis. 2014. ''Political Order and Political Decay. From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy''. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
* Haggard, Stephen and Robert Kaufman. 2016. ''Dictators and Democrats: Elites, Masses, and Regime Change''. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
* Inglehart, Ronald and Christian Welzel. 2005. ''Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence''. New York: Cambridge University Press.
* Hadenius, Axel. 2001. ''Institutions and Democratic Citizenship''. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
* Levitsky, Steven, and Lucan A. Way. 2010. ''Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War''. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
* Linz, Juan J., and Alfred Stepan. 1996. ''Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America and Post-Communist Europe''. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
* Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1959. "Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy." ''American Political Science Review'' 53(1): 69–105.
* Mainwaring, Scott, and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán. 2014. ''Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America. Emergence, Survival, and Fall''. New York: Cambridge University Press.
* Møller, Jørgen and Svend-Erik Skaaning (eds.). 2016. ''The State-Democracy Nexus. Conceptual Distinctions, Theoretical Perspectives, and Comparative Approaches''. London: Routledge.
* O'Donnell, Guillermo, and Philippe C. Schmitter. 1986. ''Transitions from Authoritarian Rule. Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies''. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 
* Przeworski, Adam. 1991. ''Democracy and the Market. Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America''. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
* Przeworski, Adam, Michael E. Alvarez, José Antonio Cheibub, and Fernando Limongi. 2000. ''Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950–1990''. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
* Rosenfeld, Bryn. 2020. ''The Autocratic Middle Class: How State Dependency Reduces the Demand for Democracy''. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press.
* Schaffer, Frederic C. ''Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture''. 1998. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
* Teele, Dawn Langan. 2018. ''Forging the Franchise: The Political Origins of the Women's Vote''. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
* Teorell, Jan. 2010. ''Determinants of Democratization: Explaining Regime Change in the World, 1972 -2006''. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
* Tilly, Charles. 2004. ''Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650–2000''. New York: Cambridge University Press.
* Tilly, Charles. 2007. ''Democracy''. New York: Cambridge University Press.
* Vanhanen, Tatu. 2003. ''Democratization: A Comparative Analysis of 170 Countries''. Routledge.
* Welzel, Christian. 2013. ''Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation''. New York: Cambridge University Press. 
* Weyland, Kurt. 2014. ''Making Waves: Democratic Contention in Europe and Latin America since the Revolutions of 1848''. New York: Cambridge University Press
* Zakaria, Fareed. ''The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad''. 2003. New York: W.W. Norton.
* Ziblatt, Daniel. 2017. ''Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy''. New York: Cambridge University Press.