- Rosanvallon, Pierre. Democratic Legitimacy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.
- Gauchet, Marcel. The Disenchantment of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
- Lefort, Claude. Democracy and Political Theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.
Republican Theory
- Pettit, Philip. Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Skinner, Quentin. Liberty before Liberalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- Spitz, Jean-Fabien. Le moment républicain en France. Paris: Gallimard, 2005.