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Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
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Autocracy, Inc.

By Anne Applebaum ,

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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

By Martin Wolf ,

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Sustaining Democracy: What We Owe to the Other Side
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Sustaining Democracy

By Robert B. Talisse ,

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

By Steven Levitsky , Daniel Ziblatt ,

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On Freedom
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On Freedom

By Timothy Snyder ,

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The Forever War
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The Forever War

By Nick Bryant ,

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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic

By Manisha Sinha ,

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Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office
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Unmaking the Presidency

By Susan Hennessey , Benjamin Wittes ,

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The Silent Coup: A History of India's Deep State
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The Silent Coup

By Josy Joseph ,

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Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
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Emotional

By Leonard Mlodinow ,

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I Love It Here: How Great Leaders Create Organizations Their People Never Want to Leave
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I Love It Here

By Clint Pulver ,

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Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
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Evil Geniuses

By Kurt Andersen ,

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How Do You Kill 11 Million People? Softcover
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How Do You Kill 11 Million People? Softcover

By Andy Andrews ,

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Latin American Politics and Society: A Comparative and Historical Analysis
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Latin American Politics and Society

By Gerardo L. Munck , Juan Pablo Luna ,

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A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America
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A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap

By Sebastián L. Mazzuca , Gerardo L. Munck ,

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We Move Together
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We Move Together

By Kelly Fritsch , Anne McGuire , Eduardo Trejos (illustrator)

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After Democracy: Imagining Our Political Future
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After Democracy

By Zizi Papacharissi ,

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Violent Victors: Why Bloodstained Parties Win Postwar Elections
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Violent Victors

By Sarah Zukerman Daly ,

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Votes, Drugs, and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico
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Votes, Drugs, and Violence

By Guillermo Trejo , Sandra Ley ,

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The Social Contract
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The Social Contract

By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ,

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The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
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The System

By Robert B. Reich ,

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The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea
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The Problem of Democracy

By Shadi Hamid ,

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Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy
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Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy

By Mohammad Ali Kadivar ,

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A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order
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A World Safe for Democracy

By G. John Ikenberry ,

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The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy
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The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution

By Joseph Fishkin , William E. Forbath ,

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Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk
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Grandstanding

By Justin Tosi , Brandon Warmke ,

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The Divide: How Fanatical Certitude Is Destroying Democracy
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The Divide

By Taylor Dotson ,

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Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
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Crack-Up Capitalism

By Quinn Slobodian ,

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Politics: A Survivor's Guide: How to Stay Engaged without Getting Enraged
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Politics

By Rafael Behr ,

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The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace
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The Insiders' Game

By Elizabeth N. Saunders ,

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The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy: Geography and the Diffusion of Political Institutions
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The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy

By John Gerring , Brendan Apfeld , Tore Wig , Andreas Foro Tollefsen

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The New Corporation: How "Good" Corporations Are Bad for Democracy
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The New Corporation

By Joel Bakan ,

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Enough
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Enough

By Cassidy Hutchinson ,

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Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
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Midnight in Washington

By Adam Schiff ,

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Post-Democracy After the Crises
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Post-Democracy After the Crises

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Total State: Totalitarianism and how we can resist it
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Total State

By Paul O'Brien ,

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The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy
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The Light That Failed

By Stephen Holmes , Ivan Krastev ,

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The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution
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The History of Ideas

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Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
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Hiding in Plain Sight

By Sarah Kendzior ,

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Four Threats
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Four Threats

By Suzanne Mettler , Robert C. Lieberman ,

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Democracy's Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous Times
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Democracy's Discontent

By Michael J. Sandel ,

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The Volatility Curse
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The Volatility Curse

By Daniela Campello , Cesar Zucco ,

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Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World
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Davos Man

By Peter S. Goodman ,

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Internet for the People
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Internet for the People

By Ben Tarnoff ,

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Hot Mess
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Hot Mess

By Matt Winning ,

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The Paradox of Democracy
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The Paradox of Democracy

By Sean Illing , Zac Gershberg ,

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