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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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Weapons of Math Destruction

By Cathy O’Neil ,

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How Democracies Die
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How Democracies Die

By Steven Levitsky , Daniel Ziblatt ,

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Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
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Hope in the Dark

By Rebecca Solnit ,

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The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
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The Death of Expertise

By Tom Nichols ,

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Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
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Democracy for Realists

By Christopher H. Achen , Larry M. Bartels ,

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Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918
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Red Saxony

By James Retallack ,

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When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics
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When Crime Pays

By Milan Vaishnav ,

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Democracy: A Life
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Democracy

By Paul Cartledge ,

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Immigration and Democracy
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Immigration and Democracy

By Sarah Song ,

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Midnight Cowboy
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Midnight Cowboy

By James Leo Herlihy ,

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The Virgin Vote: How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century
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The Virgin Vote

By Jon Grinspan ,

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Aristotle's Politics
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Aristotle's Politics

By Aristotle , Carnes Lord (translator) ,

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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
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The Origins of Political Order

By Francis Fukuyama ,

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What Is Populism?
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What Is Populism?

By Jan-Werner Muller ,

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After Capitalism
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After Capitalism

By David Schweickart ,

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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
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Democracy in Chains

By Nancy MacLean ,

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Democracy in America
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Democracy in America

By Alexis de Tocqueville ,

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Monarchy in Modern Greece
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Monarchy in Modern Greece

By Costas M. Stamatopoulos ,

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Kathmandu
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Kathmandu

By Thomas Bell ,

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Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
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Undoing the Demos

By Wendy Brown ,

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The Essential Mary Parker Follett: Ideas We Need Today
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The Essential Mary Parker Follett

By François Héon , Albie Davis , Jennifer Jones-Patulli , Sébastien Damart

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Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land
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Cambodia's Curse

By Joel Brinkley ,

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The Assault on American Excellence
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The Assault on American Excellence

By Anthony T. Kronman ,

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The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation
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The Free Voice

By Ravish Kumar ,

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Second Treatise on Government
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Second Treatise on Government

By John Locke ,

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Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration
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Strangers in Our Midst

By David Miller ,

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Challenges of Ordinary Democracy: A Case Study in Deliberation and Dissent
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Challenges of Ordinary Democracy

By Karen Tracy ,

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Democracy and Truth: A Short History
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Democracy and Truth

By Sophia Rosenfeld ,

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Civic Fusion: Mediating Polarized Public Disputes
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Civic Fusion

By Susan L. Podziba ,

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The Taming of Democracy Assistance
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The Taming of Democracy Assistance

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In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West
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In the Ruins of Neoliberalism

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Democracy: A Case Study
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Democracy

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Autocracy and Redistribution: The Politics of Land Reform
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Autocracy and Redistribution

By Michael Albertus ,

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Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy
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Authoritarianism Goes Global

By Larry Diamond (editor) , Marc F. Plattner (editor) , Christopher Walker (editor)

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How to Save a Constitutional Democracy
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How to Save a Constitutional Democracy

By Tom Ginsburg , Aziz Z Huq ,

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Designated Survivor
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Designated Survivor

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The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy
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The American Deep State

By Peter Dale Scott ,

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Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better
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Just Giving

By Rob Reich ,

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Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter
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Democracy and Political Ignorance

By Ilya Somin ,

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Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants in American Democracy
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Grassroots for Hire

By Edward T. Walker ,

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Common Sense: A Political History
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Common Sense

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Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
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Carbon Democracy

By Timothy Mitchell ,

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Populism: A Very Short Introduction
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Populism

By Cas Mudde , Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser ,

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Greek and Roman Political Ideas: A Pelican Introduction
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Greek and Roman Political Ideas

By Melissa Lane ,

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Democracy and Education
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Democracy and Education

By John Dewey ,

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Democracy in America?: What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It
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Democracy in America?

By Benjamin I. Page , Martin Gilens ,

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The Cause of All Nations
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The Cause of All Nations

By Don H. Doyle ,

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Routledge Handbook of Critical Terrorism Studies
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Routledge Handbook of Critical Terrorism Studies

By Richard Jackson (editor) ,

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