5 must-read political science books like Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself by Frances McCall Rosenbluth

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Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself

By: Frances McCall Rosenbluth

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to res…

If you liked the political science plot in Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself by Frances McCall Rosenbluth , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Neverwhere (London Below, #1) by Neil Gaiman

1. Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

By: Neil Gaiman

4.17

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

Under the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monste… read more

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"Now me,"

-Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

"Mind the gap!"

-Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

"So many things to see, people to do."

-Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

"Sometimes there is nothing you can do."

-Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

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2. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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3. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

By: Michael J. Sandel

4.31

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more

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  • political science
  • nonfiction
"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

4. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

By: Isabel Wilkerson

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more

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5. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

By: Ben Macintyre

4.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1) by Patrick O'Brian

6. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as… read more

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"Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love..."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

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7. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

By: Timothy Snyder

4.36

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the ris… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
"For the reporters, the heroes of our time"

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"In 1976, Stephen King published a short story, “I Know What You Need,"

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"Міф Жовтневої революції обіцяв усе; міф Великої Вітчизняної війни не обіцяв нічого."

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"When [Ivan] Ilyin wrote that the art of politics was “identifying and neutralizing the enemy,"

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

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8. There There

By: Tommy Orange

3.98

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more

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"Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."

-Tommy Orange, There There

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9. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

By: Caroline Criado Pérez

4.35

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"It's not always easy to convince someone a need exists, if they don't have that need themselves."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"You don’t have to realise you’re being discriminated against to in fact be discriminated against."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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10. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

By: Steven Levitsky

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
Cover of Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka

11. Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

By: Jennifer Pahlka

4.42

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century by Hélène Landemore

12. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
Cover of Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise by Susan L. Shirk

13. Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise

By: Susan L. Shirk

4.11

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

A sobering, penetrating, and illuminating examination of Chinese-US relations, what has contributed… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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14. Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself

By: Frances McCall Rosenbluth

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to res… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
Cover of Party Government: American Government in Action (Library of Liberal Thought) by E.E. Schattschneider

15. Party Government: American Government in Action (Library of Liberal Thought)

By: E.E. Schattschneider

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

What do we need to know about political parties in order to understand them? In his classic study E… read more

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9 Top politics books like Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself by Frances McCall Rosenbluth

Transform Your Habits

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

Arlie Russell Hochschild

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

Ben Macintyre

4.51

Transform Your Habits

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Timothy Snyder

4.36

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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Pérez

4.35

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Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Calder Walton

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

Alex Joske

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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