1. Blocking Progress
   Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1983
   Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."
   
2. Bowling Alone
   The Collapse and Revival of American Community
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
   
3. Center for Democracy and Technology
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Addresses issues of Internet censorhip and privacy.
4. Chomsky.Info
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
5. A Citizen Legislature
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1985
   
6. Diemer.ca
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   A left-wing perspective with articles and the Radical Digressions blog.
   
7. Everything under control, Life in a managed society
   New Internationalist April 1985
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1985
   A deluge of commercial messages are subtly undermining the consumer's ability to make autonomous decisions. Discussion of why, and how, social control is becoming the norm in Western societies.
8. Funeral Oration for the Athenian War Dead
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: -430
   Speech was given by the Athenian leader Pericles after the first battles of the Peloponnesian war.
9. Inventing the People
   The Rise of Popular Sovereignity in England and America
   Resource Type: Book
   
10. The Joy of Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I’m afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
11. The Meaning of Democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Our democratic system: a safe election every four years or so in which voters choose between corporate-dominated parties whose policies are virtually indistinguishable on all fundamental issues.
12. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
13. On Organization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
    
14. One Vote for Democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1986
    Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
15. The Real World of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    
16. Reveille for Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    
17. Rights and Liberties
    Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    Civil liberties and human rights appear as a key dimension in almost every other field of social justice and social change, but those who seek a freer and more just society cannot rely on the state to achieve their goals.
18. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
    Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    
19. The Two Souls of Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below.
20. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.

Experts on Democratic Values in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions Information Sharing Services
2. The Mackenzie Institute