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Democracy

1. Centre for the Study of Public Policy
2. Charter88: The Campaign for a Modern and Fair Democracy
3. Democratic Vistas
4. Documenting a Democracy: Australia's Story
5. Journal of Democracy
6. World Democracy Audit

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Centre for the Study of Public Policy

List of documents relating to democracy, the fall of communism, and post-communist Europe. Contains barometer surveys of New Russia, New Baltic, and New Korea, and abstracts of publications on topics such as economic enterprise and privatisation, social protection and poverty, and parties and elections. Provides a facility for ordering the full text of these articles online.
     Author: Strathclyde University Centre for the Study of Public Policy
     Subjects: democracy, political history, political science, social policy
     DeweyClass: 321.8
     Resource type: documents

Charter88: The Campaign for a Modern and Fair Democracy

Information on UK political reform, including voting, decentralisation, parliament, citizenship, freedom of information, rights and the constitution. Also describes the group, its publications and campaigns.
     Author: Charter88
     Subjects: british politics, democracy, elections
     DeweyClass: 324
     Resource type: documents

Democratic Vistas

Presents video, audio, and text transcripts of a series of lectures delivered at Yale University during 2001 on the condition and prospects of democracy in the United States.
     Author: Yale University
     Subjects: democracy, united states politics
     DeweyClass: 320.9
     Resource type: documents, moving images, sound collection

Documenting a Democracy: Australia's Story

Collection of documents tracing the development of democracy in Australia. Specific information relating to the Commonwealth, Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania is accessible via an interactive map, and is presented in RTF, PDF, or Word 6 format. Details of the significance and history of each resource is provided, along with full text transcripts of material such as various Constitutional Acts, Instructions from Queen Victoria to the Governor-General (1900), the Aborigines Act (1910), and the Treaty of Versailles (1919).
     Author: Commonwealth of Australia
     Subjects: australian government, democracy
     DeweyClass: 320.9
     Resource type: documents

Journal of Democracy

Journal which monitors and analyses democratic regimes and movements in several countries around the world. Offers free access to electronic versions of the annual Election Watch, and subscription access to the full text of articles from 1995 onwards.
     Author: National Endowment for Democracy and Johns Hopkins University Press
     Subjects: democracy, political philosophy
     DeweyClass: 321.8
     Resource type: journal

World Democracy Audit

Draws together comparative data relating to the level of democracy in over 200 countries and dependencies, using criteria such as political rights, press freedom, level of corruption, civil liberties, and human rights. Presents democracy rankings for country groupings such as the OECD, the European Union, G7, and the Arab League, and an overall ranking of nations with populations over 1 million.
     Author: World Audit
     Subjects: civil liberties, democracy, human rights
     DeweyClass: 321.8
     Resource type: reference data