Title: The Techniques of Democracy
Content:  The Techniques of Democracy is a book written by Alfred Bingham. It was published in 1943 by New York City publishers Duell, Sloan and Pearce. In this book, Bingham argues against both dogmatic individualism and dogmatic socialism.
Title: Democracy and Its Critics
Content:  Democracy and Its Critics is a book in American political science, written by Robert Dahl. The book was published by Yale University Press in 1989. In the following years Democracy and Its Critics won the 1991 Elaine and David Spitz Book Award and the 1990 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award. In the book, Dahl "examines the most basic assumptions of democratic theory, tests them against the questions raised by its critics, and recasts the theory of democracy into a new and coherent whole. He concludes by discussing the directions in which democracy must move if advanced democratic states are to exist in the future."
Title: Journal of Democracy
Content:  The Journal of Democracy is a quarterly academic journal established in 1990 and an official publication of the National Endowment for Democracy's International Forum for Democratic Studies. It covers the study of democracy, democratic regimes, and pro-democracy movements throughout the world. In addition to scholarly research and analysis, the journal incorporates reports from activists on the ground, updates on elections, and reviews of recent literature in the field. Writers published in the journal have included Václav Havel, the Dalai Lama, and Zbigniew Brzezinski. The journal is published by the Johns Hopkins University Press and the editors-in-chief are Larry Diamond (Stanford University) and Marc F. Plattner (National Endowment for Democracy). The editors of the Journal of Democracy commission most articles but do consider unsolicited articles. The journal does not perform peer review. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 1.425, ranking it 39th out of 163 journals in the category "Political Science".
Title: Claude Lefort
Content: The Political Forms of Modern Society: Bureaucracy, Democracy, Totalitarianism (MIT Press, 1986) ; Democracy and Political Theory (MIT Press, 1989) ; Writing: The Political Test (Duke University Press, 2000) ; Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2007) ; Machiavelli in the Making (Northwestern University Press, 2012) ; "Proletarian Experience (1952)", Viewpoint Magazine 3 (September 2013). 
Title: Jean-Paul Gagnon
Content:  Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013,‘Democratic Theorist in Conversation: Turns in Contemporary Thought’ includes works on ‘new democratic theory’ by Ulrich Beck, Noam Chomsky, John Dryzek, John Dunn, Francis Fukuyama, David Held, John Keane, Pierre Rosenvallon, Thomas Seeley and Albert Weale. Gagnon leads contributors through conversations on democracy to initiate discussion about a ‘new democracy theory.’ He argues that changing methods of research have decolonised the discourse surrounding democracy, therefore claiming the existence of a ‘new democratic theory.’
Title: Democracy
Content:  Secret History of Democracy. Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN: 978-0-230-24421-4 ; Khan, L. Ali. (2003). A Theory of Universal Democracy: Beyond the End of History. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. ISBN: 978-90-411-2003-8 ; Köchler, Hans. (1987). The Crisis of Representative Democracy. Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-3-8204-8843-2 ; Lijphart, Arend. (1999). Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries. Yale University Press. ISBN: 978-0-300-07893-0 ; Macpherson, C.B. (1977). The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0-19-289106-8 ; Morgan, Edmund. (1989). Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America. Norton. ISBN: 978-0-393-30623-1 ; Plattner, Marc F. & Aleksander Smolar. (2000). Globalisation, 
Title: Democracy in America
Content: The Author's Preface 
Title: Larry Diamond
Content:  Plattner and Christopher Walker ; Democracy in Decline?, with Marc F. Plattner ; Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World, with Marc F. Plattner ; Will China Democratize?, with Andrew J. Nathan and Marc F. Plattner ; Democracy in East Asia: A New Century, with Yun-han Chu and Marc F. Plattner ; Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy, with Marc F. Plattner ; Politics and Culture in Contemporary Iran, with Abbas Milani ; Democracy in Developing Countries, four-volume series, with Juan J. Linz and Seymour Martin Lipset His books include: Books for which he has been an editor include:
Title: Notes on Democracy
Content:  Notes on Democracy is a critique of democracy. The book places political leaders into two categories: the demagogue, who "preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots" and the demaslave, "who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself." Mencken depicts politicians as "men who have sold their honor for their jobs."
Title: Notes on Democracy
Content:  Writing for The Saturday Review of Literature Walter Lippmann described the book as a "tremendous polemic" which "destroy[s] by rendering it ridiculous and unfashionable, the democratic tradition of the American pioneers" and likens Notes on Democracy to The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Question: Who is the author of The Techniques of Democracy?
Answer: Herbert Croly.
Herbert David Croly.