6 must-read political science books like Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes by Juan J. Linz

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Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes

By: Juan J. Linz

3.87

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

Originally a chapter in the "Handbook of Political Science," this analysis develops the fundamental…

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1. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century

By: Samuel P. Huntington

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • political science
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2. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

By: Samuel P. Huntington

3.77

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

"Sam Huntington, one of the West's most eminent political scientists, presents a challenging framew… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • political science
"يقول ريجيه ديبراي Régis Debray أن الدين ليس (أفيون الشعوب) وإنما (فيتامين الضعفاء)"

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

"Multiculturalism is in its essence anti-European civilization. It is basically an anti-Western ideology."

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

"Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history."

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

"It is absurd to assume that the new political societies emerging in the East will be copies of the societies we know in the West."

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

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3. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • politics
  • history
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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4. Leviathan

By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson

3.71

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the En… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • political science
"Hell is truth seen too late."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

"LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!"

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

"The Conscience is a thousand witnesses."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

" Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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5. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

By: James C. Scott

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

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  • politics
  • history
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6. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson

4.08

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • political science
"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

7. The Origins of Totalitarianism

By: Hannah Arendt

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more

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8. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

By: Max Weber , Michael D. Coe , Talcott Parsons , None

3.99

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The Protestant ethic -- a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organiz… read more

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9. 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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10. Nations and Nationalism

By: Ernest Gellner , None , None , None

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

From reviews of the first edition: "Brilliant, provocative . . . a great book."--New Statesman "An… read more

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11. Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War

By: Steven Levitsky , None

4.07

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

Competitive authoritarian regimes in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but … read more

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12. The Emperor

By: Ryszard Kapuściński , None , None

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Elect of God, Lion of Judah, His Most Puissant Majesty and Distingui… read more

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13. On the Concept of History

By: Walter Benjamin

4.33

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

On The Concept of History written by legendary author Walter Benjamin is widely considered to be on… read more

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  • politics
  • history
"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “emergency situation"

-Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

"There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism."

-Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

"Every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably."

-Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

"Articolare storicamente il passato non significa conoscerlo <>. Significa impadronirsi di un ricordo come esso balena nell'istante di un pericolo."

-Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

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14. Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes

By: Juan J. Linz

3.87

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

Originally a chapter in the "Handbook of Political Science," this analysis develops the fundamental… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • political science
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15. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

By: Daron Acemoğlu

3.95

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

What forces lead to democracy's creation? Why does it sometimes consolidate only to collapse at oth… read more

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  • history
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9 Top history books like Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes by Juan J. Linz

Transform Your Habits

The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century

Samuel P. Huntington

3.63

Transform Your Habits

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Samuel P. Huntington

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson

3.71

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Alexis de Tocqueville , Isaac Kramnick , Gerald Bevan

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Transform Your Habits

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Marx-Engels Reader

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Robert C. Tucker

3.98

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Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson

3.71

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