在人类历史上，民主的历史非常悠久。自巴黎公社以后，无产阶级民主以其先进性、革命性和真实性出现在了世界政治舞台；中华人民共和国的成立使得占人类五分之一的中国人民在历史上第一次实现了当家作主，使民主走进了普通人的生活。

在《民主(英文版)》中，作者石碧球介绍了一般意义的民主知识，并在人民当家作主—党的领导—依法治国的中国特色社会主义民主政治的构架下，介绍了民主选举、民主监督、民主协商等民主生活的方方面面。

Introduction Democracy : A New Path Out of "Rise and Fair Periodic Law"

Chapter I What Is'Democracy?

 1. "Demos" in democracy: mass and elite

 2. "-Cracy" in democracy: in direct and indirect ways

 3. "Demos" and "-cracy" : unity of content and form

Chapter 2 Democracy in China

 1. Introduction of Western democratic thoughts in China and preliminary practice

 2. Exploration and practice on democracy by Chinese Communist Party during new democratic revolution period

 3. Exploration and practice on democracy by Chinese Communist Party after establishment of PRC

Chapter 3 Chinese Democracy

 1. Socialist aspect of democracy : premise and foundation of Chi-nese democracy

 2. Unity of three factors: core concepts and substantive charac-teristics of Chinese democracy

 3. Four systems : fundamental form and system framework of Chinese democracy

Chapter 4 Values of Chinese Democracy

 1. Maintain freedom

 2. Protect equality

 3. Upholding Justice

 4. Perseverance in governed-by-law

Chapter 5 Construction of Chinese Democracy

 1. Consolidate people's democracy

 2. Improve consultative democracy

 3. Promoting inner-party democracy

 4. Optimize community-level dermocracy