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Books, articles, and essays for further reading
- The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics — Mark Lilla
- The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It — Yascha Mounk
- Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America — Martin Gilens
- Democracy in America? What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do about It — Benjamin I. Page and Martin Gilens
- Ruling the Void. The Hollowing of Western Democracy — Peter Mair
- Why Parties Matter: Political Competition & Democracy in the American South — John H. Aldrich and John D. Griffin
- Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy — Robert Michels
- Saving the Media: Capitalism, Crowdfunding, and Democracy — Julia Cagé
- Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires behind the Rise of the Radical Right — Jane Mayer
- Taking Philanthropy Seriously: Beyond Noble Intentions to Responsible Giving — William Damon and Susan Verducci
- Philanthropy in Democratic Societies: History, Institutions, Values — Robert Reich, Chiara Cordelli, and Lucy Bernholz
- Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better — Rob Reich
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century — Thomas Piketty
- Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming — Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
- Capitalism vs. Democracy: Money in Politics and the Free Market Constitution — Timothy Kuhner
- Citizens Divided: Campaign Finance Reform and the Constitution — Robert C. Post
- Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections — Richard L. Hasen
- The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker — Katherine J. Cramer
- Strangers in Their Own Land — Arlie R. Hochschild
- Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age — Larry M. Bartels
- Capital and Ideology — Thomas Piketty
- The Price of a Vote: Evidence from France, 1993–2014 — Yasmine Bekkouche and Julia Cagé
- Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate — Shanto Iyengar and Stephen Ansolabehere
- Hacking the Electorate: How Campaigns Perceive Voters — Eitan D. Hersh
- Principles of Representative Government — Bernard Manin
- Republic, Lost. The Corruption of Equality and the Steps to End It — Lawrence Lessig
- Firms as Political Entities: Saving Democracy through Economic Bicameralism — Isabelle Ferras
- White-Collar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making — Nicholas Carnes
- The Cash Ceiling: Why Only the Rich Run for Of ice —And What We Can Do About It — Nicholas Carnes
- Is It Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process — Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, and Francesco Trebbi
- Social Justice through Inclusion: The Consequences of Electoral Quotas in India — Francesca Jensenius