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Wolfgang Streeck
How Will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing System
One of the “Best Books of the Year”: Guardian • Financial Times • Times Higher Education A major collection of essays that questions whether contemporary capitalism will end with a bang or a whimper—from a leading political economist and the author of Buying Time . After years o...
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Vincent Gabrielsen
Financing the Athenian Fleet: Public Taxation and Social Relations
To meet the enormous expenses of maintaining its powerful navy, democratic Athens gave wealthy citizens responsibility for financing and commanding the fleet. Known as trierarchs —literally, ship commanders—they bore the expenses of maintaining and repairing the ships, as well as recruiting and...
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Charles Tilly
Trust and Rule (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Rightly fearing that unscrupulous rulers would break them up, seize their resources, or submit them to damaging forms of intervention, strong networks of trust such as kinship groups, clandestine religious sects, and trade diasporas have historically insulated themselves from political control by a ...
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Verónica Martínez-Matsuda
Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
An examination of the Farm Security Administration's migrant camp system and the people it served Today's concern for the quality of the produce on our plates has done little to guarantee U.S. farmworkers the necessary protections of sanitary housing, medical attention, and fair labor standards. T...
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Benjamin R. Barber
If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
Can cities solve the biggest problems of the twenty-first century better than nations? Is the city democracy’s best hope? In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time—climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people—the nations of the world seem para...
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Richard K. Scher
Political Campaigns in the United States
A Choice Highly Recommended Title―January 2017 This book is an interpretive analysis of political campaigns in America: instead of focusing on how campaigns are designed and run, it investigates the role campaigns play in our American politics, and the close symbiosis between campaigns and those...
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John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
On Liberty , written by the renowned nineteenth-century philosopher John Stuart Mill in 1859, is an influential work that profoundly shaped the course of modern thought. This classic work examines the nature and limits of governmental control over individuals, arguing that individuals should be fr...
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Susan Kosinski Fritz
Susan Kosinski Fritz: An Oral History: Adventures in the USAID Foreign Service (Bound Oral Histories - Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training
The mission of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) is to capture, preserve, and share the experiences of America’s diplomats. We do this to enrich the professional knowledge of diplomatic practitioners and to strengthen public appreciation for the contributions that diplomac...
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George Orwell
Fifty Essays (Essential Orwell Classics)
"The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies "something not desirable"…In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic...
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Gregory Durnham
Project 2025 Explained: The Mandate for Conservative Leadership Analyzed Point-by-Point. Understand the Heritage Foundation’s Agenda and Its Impact on
Project 2025: The Plan to Reshape America’s Future What if the next administration had a secret blueprint to radically transform the United States —without your vote, Congress, and public debate? That blueprint exists. Project 2025 , a nearly 1,000-page manifesto created by The Heritage Fou...
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Liam O'Donnell
Power Play: A Graphic Guide Adventure
Devin and Nadia team up with Bounce, Pema and Marcus as they all travel to Northern Ontario to watch their parents present to the Summit of World Leaders. A swarm of politicians, lobbyists, corporate bosses and protestors have all converged on the summit to get their messages heard. A tragic accide...
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Cas Mudde
Populism: A Very Short Introduction
Populism is a central concept in the current media debates about politics and elections. However, like most political buzzwords, the term often floats from one meaning to another, and both social scientists and journalists use it to denote diverse phenomena. What is populism really? Who are the popu...
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Charles Krauthammer
The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors
Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, T he Point of It All  is a powerful collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, the political and the philosophical, it includes never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the e...
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We The People Side Embroidered Flexfit Hat Constitutional Rights Patriotic Apparel Black Grey Navy Red Olive Royal Blue
98% cotton, 2% spandex Spandex sweatband retains shape; Silver underbill 6-panel, structured, mid-profile 3" crown Eight-row stitching on bill Hard buckram backed front panels The "We The People" Side Embroidered Flexfit Hat is not just an accessory; it's a powerful symbol of democracy, unity, and t...
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Cameron Ross
John Dewey: A Clear Introduction to the Big Ideas and the Core Concepts
John Dewey refuses the separation of philosophy from lived experience. Against traditions that seek certainty through abstraction, he begins where life becomes problematic, where habits fail and intelligence must respond. Thought is not contemplation but action guided by inquiry. Knowledge, in Dewey...
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Colin Woodard
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
An entrancing tale of piracy colored with gold, treachery and double-dealing (Portland Press Herald), Pulitzer Prize-finalist Colin Woodward's The Republic of Pirates is the historical biography of the exploits of infamous Caribbean buccaneers during the Golden Age of Piracy. In the early eighteent...
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Richard Lawrence Miller
Senators Beholden to the People: Lincoln and the Doctrine of Instruction
The American Republic's founders debated whether to have a government based on direct democracy (in which the general population decided public policy questions, as in a New England town meeting) or representative democracy (in which those decisions were made by senators and congressmen on behalf of...
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Robert G. Boatright
Reforming Primary Elections: Voters, Campaigns, and the Future of Congressional Politics
The American system of partisan primary elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate is often blamed for contributing to political polarization and conflict in Congress. These concerns have increased in recent decades, as both parties have at times failed to nominate candidates who woul...
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Karim Ani
Dear Citizen Math: How Math Class Can Inspire a More Rational and Respectful Society
American democracy is at risk. Fueled by partisan news and emotion-stoking social media, Americans are becoming less and less able to think rationally about the challenges facing the country. For self-governance to succeed, citizens must analyze issues objectively, engage with one another respectful...
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Steven Schier
By Invitation Only (Political Science)
By Invitation Only examines the shift in the United States from mobilization (the partisan method of stimulating very high voter turnout in elections) to activation―the political variant of “niche marketing.” This more contemporary method that parties, interest groups, and candidates employ i...
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