- William Lasser, Perspectives on American Politics. Cengage Learning; 6th edition (January 1, 2011) ISBN-10: 049589947X ISBN-13: 978-049589947
- Thomas Frank, Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? Picador; Reprint edition (March 14, 2017) ISBN-10: 1250118131, ISBN-13: 978-1250118134
- John Judis, The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics. Columbia Global Reports (October 5, 2016) ISBN-10: 0997126442 ISBN-13: 978-0997126440
“Classic” works of Political Science: democracy and government in a modern society (available online):
- V.O. Key, Jr. “A Theory of Critical Elections”. The Journal of Politics 17:1 (Feb.1955): 3 – 18. http://faculty.smu.edu/jmwilson/key1.pdf
- E.E. Schattsschneider, The Semi-Sovereign People: A Realist’s View of Democracy in America. 1960 (extract). https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=d2hwcy5vcmd8bXItZWxsaXMtcy1hcC1nb3Zlcm5tZW50LXNpdGV8Z3g6NDRlZmMyYmYzOTNhN2JhMg
- Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power and The Modern Presidents. 1960 (extract). http://www.cybersisman.com/civicshonors/unit2/neustadt.pdf
Essays and articles from current journals of opinion (selection); differing models for explaining conflict in democratic systems: classfronter