（除標明，鏈結及讀物均為英文）

美國國務院刊物

The Emergence of Global Civil Society （全球公民社會的興起）
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/0796/ijde/miguel.htm

Malaise and Resiliency （不適與生機）
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/0796/ijde/lipset.htm

Nonprofit Organizations: America’s Invisible Sector （美國看不見的行業：非營利組織）
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/0198/ijde/salamon.htm

Strengthening Democracy through Civil Society （通過公民社會加強民主）
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/0198/ijde/atwood.htm

2005 NGO Sustainability Index For Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia （2005年非政府組織持續性評估：中歐、東歐和歐亞）
http://www.usaid.gov/locations/europe_eurasia/dem_gov/ngoindex/2005/index.htm

書目

Abramson, Alan, ed. Mapping New Worlds: Selected Research on the Nonprofit Sector Around the Globe.（繪製新世界：全球非營利領域研究選編）（ Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute, Non-Profit Research Fund, 2001.

Anheier, Helmut K. Nonprofit Organizations: Theory, Management and Policy. （非營利組織：理論、管理和政策） New York: Routledge, 2005.

Bates, Stephen, ed. The International Journal for Non-for-Profit Law. （非營利法國際季刊） Washington, DC: International Center for Non-for-Profit Law, 2007.

Carothers, Thomas. “The Backlash Against Democracy Promotion,” 民主促進中的逆流, [中文普通版；中文PDF版]）Foreign Affairs, vol. 85, no. 2, (March/April 2006.)

Carothers, Thomas. Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1999. See esp. Chapter 8, “From the Bottom Up: Civil Society.”

Carothers, Thomas. Critical Mission: Essays on Democracy Promotion. （重要使命：促進民主文集）Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2004.

Diamond, Larry. Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation. （發展民主：走向統合）Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Diamond, Larry and Marc F. Plattner, eds. The Global Resurgence of Democracy. （全球民主振興） Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Edwards, Michael and David Hulme, eds. Beyond the Magic Bullet: NGO Performance and Accountability in the Post-Cold War World. （非政府組織在後冷戰世界中的表現與責任） Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 1996.

Howard, Marc Morjé. The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe. （後共產主義歐洲公民社會的弱點） Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Hudock, Ann C. NGOs and Civil Society: Democracy by Proxy? （非政府組織與公民社會，[中文簡介]）Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1999.

Karatnycky, Adrian and Peter Ackerman. How Freedom is Won: From Civic Struggle to Durable Democracy. （如何贏得自由：從公民鬥爭到持續民主）New York: Freedom House, 2005.
http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/special_report/29.pdf

Lewis, David. The Management of Non-Governmental Development Organizations: An Introduction. （非政府發展組織的管理初探）London and New York: Routledge, 2001.

Mendelson, Sarah Elizabeth and John K. Glen, eds. The Power and Limits of NGOs: A Critical Look at Building Democracy in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. （非政府組織的力量與限度：審視東歐和歐亞民主建設）New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Ottaway, Marina and Thomas Carothers, eds. Funding Virtue: Civil Society Aid and Democracy Promotion. （資助公益：公民社會援助與民主推廣）Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000.

Putnam, Robert D., with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. （讓民主奏效：現代義大利社會中的公民傳統） Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Salamon, Lester M. et al. Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector （全球公民社會：非營利領域的範疇）Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, 1999.

Salamon, Lester M. “The Nonprofit Sector and Democracy: Prerequisite, Impediment, or Irrelevance?” （非營利領域與民主）in Abramson, ed., Mapping New Worlds, pp. 9-17. ；（繪製新世界：全球非營利領域研究選編，第9-17頁）

Wiarda, Howard J. Civil Society: The American Model and Third World Development. （公民社會：美國模式和第三世界發展）Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2003.