Political Science
Explore a comprehensive selection of political science books, including essential titles on the fundamentals and principles of the field. Discover the best political science booklist and best-selling books at our online bookstore.
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Notes Toward a Performative Theory of AssemblyA Times Higher Education Book of the Week Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue...
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China and Japan: Facing HistoryOne of the world's most eminent scholars of East Asia reveals the important touchstones in the long history between China and Japan and argues that for the sake of world stability they must forge a new relationship for the twenty-first century. China and Japan...
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Democracy: A Case StudyA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year "This absolutely splendid book is a triumph on every level. A first-rate history of the United States, it is beautifully written, deeply researched, and filled with entertaining stories. For anyone who wants to see our democracy...
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The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save ItA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Everyone worried about the state of contemporary politics should read this book."--Anne-Marie Slaughter "A trenchant survey from 1989, with its democratic euphoria, to the current map of autocratic striving."--David Remnick, New Yorker The world is in...
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Deaf in America: Voices from a CultureWritten by authors who are themselves Deaf, this unique book illuminates the life and culture of Deaf people from the inside, through their everyday talk, their shared myths, their art and performances, and the lessons they teach one another. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries...
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Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well LivedThis definitive collection of beloved Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's finest speeches covers topics as varied as the law, faith, virtue, pastimes, and his heroes and friends. Featuring a foreword by longtime friend Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and an intimate introduction by his youngest...
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The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community BehindRevised and updated Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization. Raghuram Rajan, distinguished University of Chicago professor,...
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Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row AmericaNATIONAL BESTSELLER A profound book.... It will break your heart but also leave you with hope. --J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy A] deeply empathetic book. --The Economist With stark photo essays and unforgettable true stories, Chris Arnade cuts through expert pontification on inequality,...
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Fourier: 'The Theory of the Four Movements'This remarkable book, written soon after the French Revolution, has traditionally been considered one of the founding documents in the history of socialism. It introduces the best known and most extraordinary Utopia written in the past two centuries. Charles Fourier was among the first...
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It's Not Like I'm Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare WorldThe world of welfare has changed radically. As the poor trade welfare checks for low-wage jobs, their low earnings qualify them for a hefty check come tax time--a combination of the earned income tax credit and other refunds. For many working parents this one...
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Non-Violent ResistanceMohandas Gandhi gained the deep respect and admiration of people worldwide with both his unwavering struggle for truth and justice and his philosophy of non-violent resistance -- a philosophy that led India to independence and that was later taken up by the American civil...
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A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American ProsperityWhen the Italian-born economist Luigi Zingales came to the United States in the 1980s, he embraced the American Dream: the belief that what brings you success is hard work, not luck or who you know. But the economic events of the past decade have...
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Wrath Of AngelsAbortion has been at the emotional center of America's culture wars for a generation. Ever since the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision, abortion has in many ways defined American politics, creating an ideological demilitarized zone between liberals and conservatives. Above all, the...
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The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New CapitalismIn The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument (Business Week) that draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, bakers, a bartender turned advertising executive, and many others...
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America's Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the PresentA landmark work when it appeared in 1976, America's Working Women helped form the field of women's studies and transform labor history. Now the authors have enlarged the dimensions of this important anthology; more than half the selections and all the introductory material are...
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In Our DefenseNew York Times Bestseller"Exceptionally timely and well-written. . . . Amendment by amendment, the authors find cases that are soul-searching in their ramifications. . . . This is a book that demands attention and consideration." --Denver PostThe Bill of Rights defines and defends the...
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Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political WarfareThis revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms We live in the age of disinformation--of organized deception. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data,...
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No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in WashingtonNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the former national security advisor and secretary of state comes a "sharp and penetrating . . . reminder that foreign-policy choices facing the United States are complex and difficult, with no easy solutions" (The Washington Post). A native...
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Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in CambodiaRoughly 1.7 million people died in Cambodia from untreated disease, starvation, and execution during the Khmer Rouge reign of less than four years in the late 1970s. The regime's brutality has come to be symbolized by the multitude of black-and-white mug shots of prisoners...
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Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret PoliceDuring Stalin's Great Terror, more than a million Soviet citizens were arrested or killed for political crimes they did not commit. Who carried out these purges, and what motivated them? Alexander Vatlin opens up the world of the Soviet perpetrators using detailed evidence from...
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