Gutmann, Amy, and Dennis Thompson. 2012. The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 279.

Thompson, Dennis F. 2005. Restoring Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business and Healthcare. Cambridge University Press.

Gutmann, Amy, and Dennis Thompson. 2004. Why Deliberative Democracy?. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Thompson, Dennis F. 2002. Just Elections: Creating a Fair Electoral Process in the U.S. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Rotberg, Robert I, and Dennis Thompson. 2000. Truth versus Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Thompson, Dennis F. 1997. Redeeming American Political Thought: Collected Essays of Judith Shklar . Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Gutmann, Amy, and Dennis Thompson. 1996. Democracy and Disagreement. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Thompson, Dennis F. 1995. Ethics in Congress: From Individual to Institutional Corruption. Washington: Brookings Institution.

Thompson, Dennis F. 1987. Political Ethics and Public Office. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Gutmann, Amy, and Dennis Thompson. 1984. Ethics and Politics: Cases and Comments. Chicago: Nelson-Hall.

Thompson, Dennis F. 1977. Political Participation. Washington, D.C. American Political Science Association.

Thompson, Dennis F. 1976. John Stuart Mill and Representative Government. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Thompson, Dennis F. 1970. The Democratic Citizen: Social Science and Democratic Theory in the 20th Century. Cambridge, England, and New York: : Cambridge University Press.