- Christopher Buck. Alain Locke: Bahá'í Principles and the Salvation of Democracy (2007). — Long presentation in slide format on the history and influence of Alain Locke.
- Christopher Buck. Alain Locke's Philosophy of Democracy (2015). — For Locke, democracy was more than its narrow political definition, but multidimensional, encompassi...
- Michael Sabet. Democracy Built on Communicative Action, A: Bahá'í Political Practice as a Prefigurative Resource for Institutional Effectiveness, Accountability, and Inclusivity (2023-07). — Habermas' mode for coordinating society grounded in deliberation; the critical role of prefigurative...
- Arash Abizadeh. Democratic Elections without Campaigns? Normative Foundations of National Baha'i Elections (2005). — Article on the philosophical foundations and core values of Baha’i elections, with particular atte...
- Universal House of Justice. "Democratization" and the Bahá'í Administrative Order (2000-07-18). — Letter regarding democracy, "Baha'i democratization," theocracy, authority, and the Baha’i Adminis...
- Juan Cole. Iranian Millenarianism and Democratic Thought in the Nineteenth Century (1992-02). — The growth of belief in representative government within the Baha'i faith in the last third of the 1...
- Peter J. Khan. Relating the Faith to Current Issues (1986). — Short essay outlining an approach to relate the teachings to current thoughts and problems of humani...
- Universal House of Justice, Juan Cole. Tablet of The Desired One (Lawh-i-Maqsúd): Wilmette Institute faculty notes (1999).
- Michael Karlberg. Western Liberal Democracy as a New World Order? (2007). — Is the Western model of democracy the natural and nevitable way to organize free and enlightened soc...
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