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# Democracy support links
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democracy-support-links/
- Published: 2008-11-20T11:11:47.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:44:08.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
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**Some useful links**

**\*** [**Institutes, think-tanks, research**](#institutes)

**\*** [**Journals, articles, reports**](#journals)

**\*** [**Blogs**](#blogs)

**\*** [**Books**](#books)

**\* Institutes, think-tanks, research**

[Center for Democracy and Civil Society](http://cdacs.georgetown.edu/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[Centre for Democratic Institutions](http://www.cdi.anu.edu.au/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[Centre for Liberal Strategies](http://www.cls-sofia.org/cgi-bin/public/index.cgi?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law](http://cddrl.stanford.edu/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[Centre for Policy Research](http://www.cprindia.org/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[Centre for Studies in Democratisation](http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/csd/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[Democracy Projects Database](http://geniehost25.inmagic.com/dbtw-wpd/projects-search.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[European Foundation for Democracy through Partnership](http://www.eupd.eu/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[European Commission - promoting democracy and human rights](http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/where/worldwide/eidhr/index%5Fen.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights](http://europa.eu/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l14172.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[European Partnership for Democracy](http://www.eupd.eu/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)](http://www.idea.int/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[National Endowment for Democracy](http://www.ned.org/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy](http://www.nimd.org/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[Taiwan Foundation for Democracy](http://www.tfd.org.tw/index.php?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[Westminster Foundation for Democracy](http://www.wfd.org/pages/home.aspx?i%5FPageID=1811&ref=opendemocracy.net)

[World Movement for Democracy](http://www.wmd.org/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

**\* Journals, articles, reports**

Larry Diamond - "[The Democratic Rollback](http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20080301faessay87204/larry-diamond/the-democratic-rollback.html?ref=opendemocracy.net)" (Foreign Affairs, March-April 2008) 

Timothy Garton Ash, "[We need a benign European hydra to advance the cause of democracy](http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/17/eu.usa?ref=opendemocracy.net)" (17 April 2008)

[Democratiya](http://www.democratiya.com/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

United States Institute of Peace, [*Rethinking Democracy Promotion in the Middle East*](http://www.usip.org/events/2008/0116%5Fdemocracy%5Fmiddle%5Feast.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) (January 2008)

[*Democracy: A Journal of Ideas*](http://www.democracyjournal.org/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[*Journal of Democracy*](http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[*Democratisation*](http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13510347.asp?ref=opendemocracy.net)

**\* Blogs**

[Democracy Arsenal](http://www.democracyarsenal.org/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[Democracy Digest](http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[Democracy Resource Center](http://democracyresourcecenter.blogspot.com/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[Personal Democracy](http://www.techpresident.com/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

**\* Books**

Thomas Carothers, [*Critical Mission: Essays on Democracy Promotion*](http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=1543&ref=opendemocracy.net) (CEIP, 2004)

Karen von Hippel, [*Democracy by Force*](http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521659550&ref=opendemocracy.net) (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Robert Kagan, [*The Return of History and the End of Dreams*](http://the%20return%20of%20history%20and%20the%20end%20of%20dreams/) (Random House, 2008)

Paul Ginsborg, [*Democracy*](http://www.profilebooks.co.uk/title.php?titleissue%5Fid=511&ref=opendemocracy.net) (Profile, 2008)

James Traub, [*The Freedom Agenda*](http://us.macmillan.com/thefreedomagenda?ref=opendemocracy.net) (Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 2008)

Tamara Wittes, [*Freedom's Unsteady March: America's Role in Building Arab Democracy*](http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/2008/freedomsunsteadymarch.aspx?ref=opendemocracy.net) (Brookings, 2008)