📚 Democracy

Books with democracy on their catalogue record, first published between 1776 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject democracy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 41,675 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Democracy and Education	John Dewey	1916	184
	The Wealth of Nations	Adam Smith	1776	124
	Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy	Joseph Alois Schumpeter	1942	78
	Towards democracy	Edward Carpenter	1883	61
	A History of English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. IV	Winston S. Churchill	1950	50
	Give Me Liberty!	Eric Foner	2010	36
	Bailey textbook of histology	Frederick R. Bailey	1904	31
	Political ideologies and the democratic ideal	Terence Ball	1990	30
	The public and its problems	John Dewey	1926	22
	On Tyranny	Timothy Snyder	2017	21
	Reform Acts	Sarah Richardson	2019	21
	Jahrbuch Extremismus & Demokratie (E & D)	Uwe Backes	1989	20
	Considerations upon the nature and tendency of free institutions	Frederick Grimké	1848	18
	Governing	Austin Ranney	1971	18
	Give Me Liberty!	Eric Foner	2011	18
	Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties	Moisei Ostrogorski	2015	18
	Weapons of Math Destruction	Cathy O'Neil	2016	16
	Democracy in America	Alexis de Tocqueville	1945	15
	The origins of totalitarian democracy	Jacob Leib Talmon	1952	14
	In Defense of Anarchism	Robert Paul Wolff	1970	14
	The children of light and the children of darkness	Reinhold Niebuhr	1944	13
	Approaching democracy	Larry Berman	1996	12
	Profit over People	Noam Chomsky	1998	12
	Essentials of Comparative Politics	Patrick H. O'Neil	2012	11
	Kitāb al-akhḍar	Muammar Qaddafi	1900	10
	A History of the English-Speaking Peoples	Winston S. Churchill	1998	10
	The Next Revolution	Murray Bookchin	2015	9
	Freedom, power & democratic planning	Karl Mannheim	1950	8
	A preface to democratic theory	Robert Alan Dahl	1956	8
	Democratic theory	Giovanni Sartori	1962	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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