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Taking stock of democracy

A new model of assessing the quality of democracy is universal yet local

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Democracy support resources

* Institutes,
think-tanks, research

* Journals,
articles, reports

* Blogs

* Books

* Institutes,
think-tanks, research

Center
for Democracy and Civil Society

Centre
for Democratic Institutions

Centre for Liberal Strategies

Center
on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law

Centre
for Policy Research

Centre for Studies in
Democratisation

Democracy Projects Database

European
Foundation for Democracy through Partnership

European Commission - promoting
democracy and human rights

European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights

European
Partnership for Democracy

International
Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)

National
Endowment for Democracy

Netherlands
Institute for Multiparty Democracy

Taiwan Foundation for Democracy

Westminster Foundation for Democracy

World
Movement for Democracy

* Journals,
articles, reports

Larry Diamond - "The Democratic Rollback" (Foreign Affairs, March-April 2008)

Timothy Garton Ash, "We need a benign European hydra
to advance the cause of democracy
"
(17 April 2008)

Democratiya

United States Institute of Peace, Rethinking
Democracy Promotion in the Middle East
(January 2008)

Democracy: A Journal of Ideas

Journal of Democracy

Democratisation

* Blogs

Democracy Arsenal

Democracy
Digest

Democracy Resource Center

Personal
Democracy

* Books

Thomas Carothers, Critical
Mission: Essays on Democracy Promotion
(CEIP, 2004)

Karen von Hippel, Democracy
by Force
(Cambridge University
Press, 2003)

Robert Kagan, The
Return of History and the End of Dreams
(Random House, 2008)

Paul Ginsborg, Democracy (Profile, 2008)

James Traub, The Freedom Agenda (Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 2008)

Tamara Wittes, Freedom's
Unsteady March: America's Role in Building Arab Democracy
(Brookings, 2008)