Machiavellian Democracy
By: John P. McCormick
4.21
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Intensifying economic and political inequality poses a dangerous threat to the liberty of democrati…
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1. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
2. Power: A Radical View
By: Steven Lukes
4.40
Format: 82 pages,
Steven Lukes' Power: A Radical View is a seminal work still widely used some 30 years after publica… read more
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3. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
By: Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dialectic of Enlightenmentis undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School o… read more
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4. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
By: Arlie Russell Hochschild
3.77
Format: 300 pages,
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-prov… read more
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5. The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
By: James Burnham
4.31
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
This classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, … read more
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"There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social…"-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
"Independence, the first condition of liberty, can be secured in the last analysis only by the armed strength of the citizenry itself, never by mercenaries or allies or money; consequently arms are th…"-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
"Formally, a new election for an office many be held every year or two. But, in practice, the moere fact that an invidual has held the office in the past is thought by him and by the members to give h…"-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
6. The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States
By: Theodore J. Lowi
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
The main argument which Lowi develops through this book is that the liberal state grew to its immen… read more
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7. The End of History and the Last Man
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Manhas provoked controver… read more
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8. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China
By: Theda Skocpol
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Why have social revolutions occurred in some countries but not in others? How and why have prerevol… read more
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9. The Year of Magical Thinking
By: Joan Didion
4.44
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her min… read more
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10. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Amia Srinivasan
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
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"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
11. Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century
By: Hélène Landemore
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like.--Nathan Heller, N… read more
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12. Why Parties?: A Second Look (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
By: John H. Aldrich
3.68
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, Why Parties? has become essential reading for anyone … read more
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13. Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America
By: Paul Frymer
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Paul Frymer argues provocatively that two-party competition in the United States leads to the margi… read more
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14. Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities 1877-1920
By: Stephen Skowronek
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
This book is about governmental change in America. It examines the reconstruction of institutional … read more
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15. Machiavellian Democracy
By: John P. McCormick
4.21
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Intensifying economic and political inequality poses a dangerous threat to the liberty of democrati… read more
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16. When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency
By: Bernardo Zacka
4.00
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the fro… read more
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17. Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society)
By: Nate Holdren
4.53
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
The late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US economy maimed and killed employees at an astro… read more
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18. Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government [Oxford Political Theory Series]
By: Philip Pettit
3.92
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
This is the first full-length presentation of a republican alternative to the liberal and communita… read more
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