8 Best nonfiction books like Bending the Rules: Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy by Rachel Augustine Potter

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Bending the Rules: Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy

By: Rachel Augustine Potter

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Who determines the fuel standards for our cars? What about whether Plan B, the morning-after pill, …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Bending the Rules: Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy by Rachel Augustine Potter , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

By: Michael Shaara

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two drea… read more

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"Never let them see you run."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"Southern women like their men religious and a little mad."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"He was one of those, like Stuart, who looked on war as God's greatest game."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"…[W]e have a country here where the past cannot keep a good man in chains, and that's the nature of the war."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

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2. A Preface to Democratic Theory

By: Robert A. Dahl

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Robert Dahl’s Preface helped launch democratic theory fifty years ago as a new area of study in pol… read more

Similar categories in Robert A. Dahl's A Preface to Democratic Theory book and Rachel Augustine Potter's Bending the Rules: Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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3. Arms and Influence

By: Thomas C. Schelling

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Traditionally, Americans have viewed war as an alternative to diplomacy, and military strategy as t… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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4. Starship Troopers

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.01

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),… read more

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"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

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5. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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6. The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

By: Michael Lewis

4.09

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waite… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"The problems that had been Obama's problems for the past eight years were about to become Trump's problems. But his people didn't seem to want to know about them."

-Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

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7. Bending the Rules: Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy

By: Rachel Augustine Potter

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Who determines the fuel standards for our cars? What about whether Plan B, the morning-after pill, … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Augustine Potter's Bending the Rules: Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy book and Rachel Augustine Potter's Bending the Rules: Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy

  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics by Jamila Michener

8. Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics

By: Jamila Michener

4.28

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Medicaid is the single largest public health insurer in the United States, covering upwards of 70 m… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics) by Alexander Thurston

9. Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)

By: Alexander Thurston

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A comprehensive history of one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups Boko Haram is one of the… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

10. Opting Out of Congress: Partisan Polarization and the Decline of Moderate Candidates

By: Danielle M Thomsen

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

This book provides a candidate entry explanation for partisan polarization in Congress. Danielle M.… read more

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11. The Accidental History of the U.S. Immigration Courts: War, Fear, and the Roots of Dysfunction

By: Alison Peck

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

How the immigration courts became part of the nation’s law enforcement agency—and how to reshape th… read more

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  • nonfiction

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3.62

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4.37

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Rachel Maddow

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