- Administrative Order, Bahá'í, by Universal House of Justice (2000-08-13). A number of questions about the functioning of the Bahá'í Administrative Order.
- After Communism: What Next?: Warwick Leaflets, by Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop (1990). Leaflet proposing the Bahá'í Faith as a solution to the hole left in European society by the downfall of communism.
- Alain Locke: Bahá'í Principles and the Salvation of Democracy, by Christopher Buck (2007). Long presentation in slide format on the history and influence of Alain Locke.
- Alain Locke's Philosophy of Democracy, by Christopher Buck (2015). For Locke, democracy was more than its narrow political definition, but multidimensional, encompassing local, moral, political, economic, and cultural stages — a model against which he measured America’s fidelity to its democratic ideal.
- Bahá'u'lláh and Peace: A Series of Four Talks, by Nader Saiedi (2018). Talks at the Santa Monica Baha’i Center in California on four areas within the context of Baha'u'llah's Revelation that relate to peace, and how Baha'u'llah reconstructs the concepts of victory, mystical poetry, interpretation, and the temple.
- Democracy Built on Communicative Action, A: Bahá'í Political Practice as a Prefigurative Resource for Institutional Effectiveness, Accountability, and Inclusivity, by Michael Sabet (2023-07). Habermas' mode for coordinating society grounded in deliberation; the critical role of prefigurative politics; the Bahá'í community demonstrates effective norms and practices;
- Democratic Elections without Campaigns? Normative Foundations of National Baha'i Elections, by Arash Abizadeh (2005). Article on the philosophical foundations and core values of Baha’i elections, with particular attention to its relation to democratic theory.
- "Democratization" and the Bahá'í Administrative Order, by Universal House of Justice (2000-07-18). Letter regarding democracy, "Bahá'í democratization," theocracy, authority, and the Bahá’í Administrative Order.
- Epistemological Foundations of Bahá'í Political Nonpartisanship, The, by Behrooz Sabet (2025). Exploration of Bahá'í non-partisanship as an epistemological stance: more than a moral principle, it is a way of knowing that transcends ideology, fosters unity, and guides constructive civic engagement in a globalizing world.
- Iranian Millenarianism and Democratic Thought in the Nineteenth Century, by Juan Cole (1992-02). The growth of belief in representative government within the Bahá'í faith in the last third of the 19th century as an example of how popular opinion in Iran was changing prior to the Constitutional Revolution.
- List of Articles by Nader Saiedi on BahaiTeachings.org, by Nader Saiedi (2017-2020). Links to 40 essays about Baha'i teachings on spiritual unity, justice, freedom, democracy, and global peace, critiquing materialism, nationalism, and advocating societal reform.
- Relating the Faith to Current Issues, by Peter J. Khan (1986). Short essay outlining an approach to relate the teachings to current thoughts and problems of humanity.
- Tablet of The Desired One (Lawh-i-Maqsúd): Wilmette Institute faculty notes, by Universal House of Justice, Juan Cole (1999).
- Text and Context in the Bahá'í Heroic Age, by Nader Saiedi (2014). A series of 12 talks by Nader Saiedi exploring Bahá'í history, key writings, and the need for scholarly study, translation, and contextual analysis of Bahá'í texts.
- Western Liberal Democracy as a New World Order?, by Michael Karlberg (2007). Is the Western model of democracy the natural and nevitable way to organize free and enlightened societies?
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