What to Read After Making Democracy Work
Readers who loved Making Democracy Work by Robert D. Putnam keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Making Democracy Work is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Making Democracy Work
Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1990
The three worlds of welfare capitalism
The moral economy of the peasant
Democracy and its critics
The logic of collective action
The semisovereign people
Power in Movement
Ethnic groups in conflict
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
States and social revolutions
Power
Against elections
The Third Wave
Constitutional development in Pakistan
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
Institutions, institutional change, and economic performance
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
Bowling Alone
Capitalism, socialism and democracy
The End of History and the Last Man
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Leviathan
Orientalism
The better angels of our nature